
A poster featuring Australia´s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is displayed as people queue to vote in Australia´s general election at a polling station in the suburb of Marrickville in Sydney on May 3, 2025. — AFP
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Sydney: Australian residents began voting in a fierce contesting general election on Saturday, which decided to face life costs, climate problems and US President Donald Trump’s prices.
From the Dusti desert cities to the sun -collided cities, millions of Australians will choose between the left -wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanz and the conservative challenge Peter Dutton.
Almost universal consensus in several voters’ voters for election day was that Albanian’s governing labor party would win a second term.
Albaniai told Channel Seven Saturday morning, “If I was re -elected as the Australian Prime Minister, I would not leave anything in the next three years.”
“I hope today we receive a majority government so that we can prepare the foundations we have given. Australia has turned the corner. ‘
The first pool was opened at 8:00 am on the east coast of Australia (2200 GMT), after which it will be followed after the country’s western cities and remote islands.
A total of 18.1 million voters have been enrolled for the elections. The Election Authority said more than one -third of them had put the initial belt.
Voting is mandatory, which has been imposed with Aus $ 20 (US $ 13), which is why turnout is 90 %.
This can result in a Saturday night, unless the vote is too tough.
The 62 -year -old Albani has promised to adopt renewable energy, tackle housing crisis and put money into a health care system.
Trump slip
Liberal party leader and 54 -year -old former police officer, Dutton, wants to reduce immigration, want to end crime and lose a long -standing ban on nuclear power.
In some survey, Dutton supported support for US President Trump, which he praised as a “great thinker” globally this year.
“I mean, Donald Trump is crazy like a cut -off snake, and we all know, ’59 -year -old voter Alan Whiteman said before putting the belt on Saturday.
‘And we have to tip around it.’
When Australians called for Trump, both Dutton and Albanizes added more miscellaneous tone.
Dutton said in April, “If I need a fight with Donald Trump or any other world leader to advance the interests of my nation, I will do it in a heartbeat.”
Albanians condemned Trump’s prices as an act of ‘damaging the economic themselves’ and ‘not a friend’s action’.
Economic concerns have dominated many Australian families struggling to pay for prices of milk, bread, electricity and petrol.
‘The cost of living – this is extremely high right now. So, tax is also another really. Petrol prices, all the basic things, ‘Human Resources manager Rubin Naxes told AFP in Brisbane.
Small business owner Jayard Bell had similar concerns.
“Our grocery shops are definitely more expensive than a few years ago,” he said.
The campaign stumbles
Both Albanian and Dutton tried to stop themselves as people’s men, but when they were asked about the price of eggs in the television debate at the national level, they were stumped.
The coal mining superpower Australia will choose between two leaders, which will have rapidly contradictory views about climate change and emission reduction.
The Albanian government has accepted the global push towards the decoration, which has warned the future, in which iron and pollution do not promote coal exports.
The Dutton’s signing policy is a US $ 200 billion scheme that eliminates the need to increase renewable sources for the construction of a seven -industrial -scale nuclear reactors.
The 36 -day campaign was a widespread matter, but there were a few moments of non -script levit.
Albanian went back from stage to a rally of a Having campaign, when Dutton pulled the blood when he hit an unmarried cameraman in the head with a wandering football.
It remains to be seen whether Albanian or Dutton will order a straightforward majority, or they are forced to unite the alliance with the support of minor parties.
The growing instability in voters has emphasized more transparency and climate progress to independent candidates.
Polls suggest that 10 or more unmanaged cross benches can maintain a balance of power.