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Australian prime minister calls election amid shadow of Trump and cost-of-living crisis

2025-04-23 18:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling

Australia will go to the polls on 3 May, with Anthony Albaneses first-term Labor government facing an uphill struggle to retain its narrow majority in parliament.Neither he nor the centre-right opposition leader, Peter Dutton, have sparked enthusiasm in the electorate, and polls suggest neither party may achieve an absolute majority in the 150-seat House of Representatives, meaning one or the other would need to negotiate with independents and minor parties to form government.Albanese announced the election date on Friday morning in a Canberra press conference, pitching it as a choice between Labors plan to keep building or Peter Duttons promise to cut referring to Coalition plans to sack 40,000 public servants and said the economy was now turning the corner after a period of high inflation.The prime minister had planned to call the election three weeks earlier, but was forced to postpone when Tropical Cyclone Alfred threatened to swamp Brisbane and surrounding areas.That me...


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