Australia will head to the polls to federal elections on May 3.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, whose Labor Party will defend the majority with three seats, announced the date after the visit Governor General in the capital, Canberra, Friday.
Public opinion polls foresee a slender margin between the two major parties in the country and the possibility that they will either have to cooperate with independent MPs or smaller parties – which combined the record stake in the last vote of 2022 – to form the next government.
The campaign is expected to dominate the problems of living costs, and the Labor fights to avoid becoming the only first -time government to lose the elections in almost a century.
The accessibility of residence and food is at the top of the voice, as is the approach to health, although concern about the management of record immigration and reduction of crime is significantly increasing. Climate action – a feature of the last choice – is still important to many Australians.
Albanese has promised to address the cost of life – so far he has discovered plans to provide more free visits to the doctor and delivery of small tax reductions, and says that his chosen rival Peter Dutton would be a step back for the country.
The opposition leader, however, claimed that his party is a solution to many of the voters concerning the voters, promising to “bring Australia back to the right path” breaking crime and improves the economy.
Politics in Australia – where voting is mandatory for adults – traditionally dominated by Labor and liberally – National Coalition. Any side should win at least 76 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives – where the Prime Minister sits – to form a majority government.
One of the longest politicians in the country, Albanese assumed power in 2022 after a decade of political instability, in which the country changed the leader six times in just eight years.
He promised unity and integrity and – after a campaign marked by anger for his efforts in reducing emissions in Australia – he promised to “end climate wars.”
The Albanese Government has enrolled in the law of an increased target emission and introduced a mechanism that acts as carbon restrictions on the largest emitors in the country – although experts say that more ambitions are needed.
However, the key goal of Albanese to achieve a constitutional recognition for the people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and the establishment of a parliamentary advisory body for them, failed in the 2023 referendum.
And he came under pressure because of the global economic conditions that had worsened pain in the cost of living in Australia-I played a role in the fall of several current governments around the world last year.
Last year, he came under the fire after appearing to have bought $ 4.3 million ($ 2.9 million, £ 2.2 million) in the middle of a national housing crisis.
The Australians did not throw the government from Canberre after only one term of 1931.
Dutton – who was a Queensland police officer before he was elected – he had been in Parliament for over 20 years under his belt, and many of them spent as a senior minister dealing with key portfolio such as health, immigration, defense and internal affairs.
He built a reputation of a hard conservative conservative conservative who is best known for supervising Australia’s controversial policies on asylums and his role in the fall of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbulla.
He focused as a cultural warrior – opposition to the same sexual marriage, diversity and initiatives to include and voice a referendum on parliament – but lately he tried to shake off his public public figure, which he says he does not reflect exactly who he is.
