My View of Australia after 72 years. It's appalling.

 My View:

From my 72 years here, I think many Australians always wished to be British, or Irish, and now they simply wish to be Americans.
I think this is just how we are, here, en masse.
Footloose on the edge of Asia, yet never really belonging to or in Asia.
Never belonging because we never wanted to belong to Asia, that's for sure. Also, because Asia never wanted us here, and that's for sure. They don't like us. We do not do fair trade. We seek to be bullies in the Pacific and Asia at the beck and call of our American owners.
Still, we are here and need to make some sense of the time.
We need to make friends in Asia by doing good trade and having generally meaningful relationships with many countries that America doesn't want us to, at all. Geopolitically, they need us in their pocket, very unaligned with anyone else.
What's wrong with Australia having an Alliance with China, India, Indonesia? That's an empowering group.
Would there be anything wrong with Australia kicking out all the American spies and high tech facilities in Pine Gap that do spy on Asia and include spying on us, our phones, our emails etc? Nothing at all. It is our country.
But what would happen?
The Americans would destroy us. We know that. Or so it seems.
Can we ever get back the land in Darwin we offered as a US Military Base? No, we cannot ever get that land back. That is not ours anymore. We cannot even make a decision on that.
I think that Australia could do well, and much better than at present, by steering a more independent course, making up our minds about things and actioning decisions rather than waiting for the USA to tell us who to be and what to think.
It is not a Call for Socialism, it is a Call for Australia to do something for itself and the short and long term real benefit of its own people rather than being an adaptive slave for its 'owners'.
That's my view.