Australia PM Albanese calls national election for May 3

Australian prime minister rushes to election over-shadowed by Trump and cost-of-living crisis

Like this week’s budget, the election is a conspiracy, involving Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition and all the parliamentary parties, to hide the reality from the working class as much as possible.

As Australia’s Election Called for May 3, Both Labor and Liberals See Cause for Hope

Incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has the weight of history on his side. But modern day politics is volatile, and the voters are cranky.

In the Australian parliamentary election on 3 May, voters also vote on the question of whether the country should be given its first nuclear power stations.

Australians will go to the polls on May 3, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced. Around 18 million Australians will then be able to elect a new parliament. Albanese, leader of the centre-left Labor Party, is hoping for a second three-year term. But the election promises to be a neck-and-neck race with Peter Dutton of the conservative Liberal Party. Labor currently has a small majority in parliament with 77 of the 151 seats. If neither o…

Australia set for showdown over climate change, housing prices, as PM calls general elections for May 3

Australia will hold a general election on May 3, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday, locking in a showdown over climate action, nuclear power and a runaway housing market. Albanese's center-left Labor party took office in May 2022, turfing out a conservative government deeply unpopular after almost a decade in charge. But initial enthusiasm for Albanese, 62, has evaporated in recent months as the government nears the end of its three-ye…

Australia is bracing itself for a chaotic general election

The prospect of, particularly, the far-left Greens holding sway over a minority Labor government is terrifying.