The Albany Labor Party won a majority in the last federal election in 2022, but recent polls show that when the votes for smaller parties are redistributed, the opposition Liberal National League neck and neck.
“Our government chooses to face global challenges in the Australian way – helping people with the pressure of living while building the cost of living for the future,” he said in a press conference. “Australia is turning around due to the strength and resilience our people demonstrate. Now, May 3, you choose the way forward.”
Albanese met with the country’s governor Sam Mostyn in the morning to seek permission to hold federal elections nationwide.
Under the Australian Constitution, the Prime Minister must formally seek permission to convene the Governor General, King Charles of England.
The three-year limit means Australia must participate in a poll as early as May 17 when it elects a new parliament. Tensional exercise
Albanese has announced a series of measures to please families and businesses in recent months, including tax cuts in Tuesday’s budget, with rising cost of living aimed at dominating the campaign.
Albanis focused his campaign attacks on opposition liberals and a coalition of states on Friday, saying it would axe the government plan and revoke the new tax breaks passed by parliament this week.
Close elections may mean that no party or alliance of parties can form a government on their own, but instead rely on smaller parties to make up the majority in the country’s lower house.
Albanese, a longtime labor MP who grew up in government housing, came to power amid a wave of personal popularity, but rose cost of living and interest rates during his tenure.
Inflation and the Australian Central Bank’s decision to lower interest rates for the first time at its February meeting did not help Albanes’ poll numbers.
After enjoying healthy leadership for much of his tenure, his personal approval rating is close to liberal leader Peter Dutton, a former police officer and defense secretary in a previous Liberal government.
Dutton, who had run for a housing crisis, said it made home ownership out of reach and in his speech Thursday night, linked the issue to high immigration. He plans to adopt nuclear power in the country to oppose Labor’s transition to renewable energy, which Dutton said increased electricity prices for households and small businesses.
Both leaders have pledged to raise an additional $8.5 billion ($5.42 billion) over four years to improve the country’s public health care system.
Albanese accepted pension mothers who were treated in the same public hospital as Australian billionaires at the same public hospital on Friday and revised a terrorism campaign to rule the 2016 election on Friday, suggesting that liberalism and the National Alliance will cut national health care plans Medicare. Dutton said he would be in line with Labor’s plan to increase health insurance funding for doctors’ visits.
Another question in the campaign will be which leader is best dealing with relationships with U.S. President Donald Trump, who imposes steel and aluminum tariffs that affect Australian exports. Trump is expected to announce further tariffs on trading partners next week.
Albanis said his administration “has been fighting the Trump administration every day against tariffs and pointed to two phone calls with the U.S. president and early meetings between the defense lawyers and foreign ministers.
Albanese tried to eliminate Dutton without naming Trump to adopt Trump-style policies such as reducing civil servant jobs.
“Borrowing a bunch of ideas from others – the way we need Australia,” Albanis said in a press conference.
