How will the outcome of the US election affect Australia, Aukus and our region?

The results of the US election – whether a second Trump administration or the ‘quasi-continuity’ of a Kamala Harris presidency – will have major implications worldwide. Composite: Guardian design/EPA/AP/AFP/Getty Images

More people have gone to a ballot box in 2024 than in any other year in human history. Billions have cast votes across scores of countries, including some of the largest, most powerful democracies on Earth.

But America’s remains the world’s global election, the most forensically examined, the most consequential all over the world. America matters.