An Australian former adviser to the US president says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should not be afraid to stand firm to Donald Trump when they finally meet at the White House later this month.

Former Dow Chemical chief executive Andrew Liveris, who now heads the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games organising committee, told a business lunch in the Queensland capital on Thursday Albanese needed to avoid the trap of fawning over Trump, as so many world leaders had done.

Instead, Liveris said, Albanese should “be strong and say what he needs to say about our country”.

Andrew Liveris and then-president-elect Donald Trump in 2016. Credit: NYT

“This ‘how am I going to make [Trump] happy, so I can protect my country?’ is exactly the wrong way to approach it,” he said.

“What’s

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