Australian geopolitical economy defines the production and reproduction of life in the nation. It is embedded in the US imperial project of global domination, implying that it will continue to be driven by US economic and military national interests. Australia is a materialist nation-state dependent on the extensive domestic and overseas extraction and processing of metals, minerals and fossil fuels. Its relations with China and the US are critical to the future security and wellbeing of all Australians. Under US President Donald Trump’s new reign of power, Australian trading relations with China will come under dangerous stress, affecting mineral, food exports and other earnings from China. Australia’s whole nation geostrategy, structuring Australia’s military alliance with the UK and US (AUKUS), is weaponising Australian domestic and foreign relations. It inserts Australia in US’ proxy global wars and policy to regime change China, Iran and Russia, and balkanise their territorial integrity. The US is a danger to Australia’s future as a nation. Australia is the world’s driest inhabited continent and has the highest percentage of dry climates across its land mass. It is a country dangerously exposed to the impact of global warming. The section concludes in revisiting the meaning of historical materialism in the context of Australia’s capitalist and democratic future.