Albanese’s win mirrored the beautiful victory of Mark Carney’s center-left Liberal Get together in Canada, the place conservative Pierre Poilievre misplaced each the election and his personal seat, regardless of being 25 share factors up in polling on the finish of 2024 over unpopular then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
A POLITICO/Focaldata ballot of Canadians days earlier than the election there discovered three-quarters of them disliked Trump — and a majority believed Carney, reasonably than Poilievre, could be higher suited to managing the connection with the U.S.
2. Value of residing trumps tradition wars
Australia is going through a cost-of-living disaster, with rising inflation, unaffordable housing and persistently excessive rates of interest squeezing households. Albanese centered his marketing campaign on these voter issues, and insurance policies he mentioned would deal with them.
Dutton, in the meantime, mainly fought a tradition conflict.
Taking inspiration from Trump, Dutton mentioned that Indigenous “welcome to nation” ceremonies, that are carried out by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander elders to welcome guests to their ancestral lands, are “overdone,” and claimed “we have to cease the educating of a few of the curriculum that claims that our kids ought to be ashamed of being Australian.”
In a nod to Trump’s assaults on the media, Dutton labeled Australia’s nationwide broadcaster, the ABC, and the left-leaning Guardian newspaper “the hate media,” after they reported within the final week of the marketing campaign that he was on observe to lose the election.
