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Australia's Albanese claims election victory, riding anti-Trump wave
Reuters via MSN ^ | Saturday May 3, 2025 | Kirsty Needham, Alasdair Pal and Christine Chen

Posted on 05/03/2025 7:49:37 AM PDT by fluorescence

Australia’s Anthony Albanese claimed a historic second term as prime minister on Saturday in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters' concerns about the influence of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Peter Dutton, leader of the conservative Liberal party, conceded defeat and the loss of his own seat - echoing the fate of Canada's conservatives and their leader whose election losses days earlier were also attributed to a Trump backlash.

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Albanese would be the first Australian prime minister to win a consecutive term in two decades. He said Australians had voted for fairness and "the strength to show courage in adversity and kindness to those in need".

The Australian Electoral Commission website projected Labor would win 81 of 150 seats in the House of Representatives, increasing its majority in parliament, with 68% of the vote counted.

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TRUMP COMPARISONS

Cost-of-living pressures and concerns about Trump's volatile policies had been among the top issues on voters' minds, opinion polls showed.

"If you sling enough mud it will stick," said Liberal Senator for the Northern Territory Jacinta Price, whose comments that her party would "make Australia great again" had fuelled comparisons to Trump's own "Make America Great Again" slogan.

"You made it all about Trump," she said on ABC. Dutton had said he would appoint Price to a ministry of government efficiency, one of several echoes of Trump's policies.

"Losing Peter Dutton is a huge loss," she added.

Opposition Liberal Party spokesman, Senator James Paterson, defended the conservative campaign, which he said was negatively affected by "the Trump factor".

"It was devastating in Canada for the conservatives ... I think it has been a factor here, just how big a factor will be determined in a few hours' time," he earlier told ABC.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Canada; China; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2026wipeout; alasdairpal; albanese; anthonyalbanese; australia; canada; ccp; china; christinechen; demedia; gopisdone; jacintaprice; jamespaterson; kirstyneedham; laborparty; liberalparty; losing; needsareformparty; notadimesdifference; officialdemnarrative; peterdutton; trumpishitler; unitedkingdom
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Australians (some of the most strongly anti-American people in the world) hate Trump so much that they re-elected the extreme high-immigration, socialist, anti-American Labor party to continue destroying their country. How this will spite Trump is unclear.
1 posted on 05/03/2025 7:49:38 AM PDT by fluorescence
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To: fluorescence

I don’t remember seeing any articles about how Georgia Meloni’s victory was “riding an anti-Biden wave”. I don’t recall seeing any articles that the surging Afd in Germany was “riding a pro-Trump wave”. Same for elections in Hungary and Romania.


2 posted on 05/03/2025 7:58:36 AM PDT by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents Say Global Warming Is An Existential Crisis)
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To: fluorescence

Australia and Canada chose POORLY


3 posted on 05/03/2025 7:58:51 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: brookwood

I didn’t vote for Trump because I was supporting Peter Dutton, apparently a conservative Australian politician. I wasn’t riding an “anti-Albanese wave”. The whole premise of this article is ludicrous.


4 posted on 05/03/2025 8:00:25 AM PDT by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents Say Global Warming Is An Existential Crisis)
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To: fluorescence

You are 100% correct. They hate Trump as do the Canadians and British.


5 posted on 05/03/2025 8:00:29 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: fluorescence

They better watch it or we will cancel some of our foreign military sales which will hurt the big time!


6 posted on 05/03/2025 8:01:01 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: butlerweave

The US doesn’t have any trusted allies.


7 posted on 05/03/2025 8:03:35 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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To: fluorescence

They are so proud they feel they can duplicate success by electing the exact opposite of POTUS Trump.

When POTUS Trump was elected, were Americans motivated by their hate for the leader of another country or are Americans just .... DIFFERENT?


8 posted on 05/03/2025 8:05:38 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: butlerweave
These dumbass commonweath nations let the
lefties flood these country with
blood sucking foreigners like China CCP plants and Indian commies and Sri Lanka wealth-fare snakes .
They have lost their countries to planned socialist invasion .
9 posted on 05/03/2025 8:06:52 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: brookwood
I don’t remember seeing any articles about how Georgia Meloni’s victory was “riding an anti-Biden wave”. I don’t recall seeing any articles that the surging Afd in Germany was “riding a pro-Trump wave”. Same for elections in Hungary and Romania.

Yep. All articles from the HBM (Has Been Media) are based on a "Let's Hate Trump" basis. Also, see Tagline.

10 posted on 05/03/2025 8:07:16 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: fluorescence

Are they burning Tesla’s there yet?


11 posted on 05/03/2025 8:08:24 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: butlerweave

Meh, WGAF. They’ll both come to regret their infantile temper tantrum come this time next year.


12 posted on 05/03/2025 8:09:25 AM PDT by technically right
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To: fluorescence

WELL, THEN, LET THEM LIVE WITH THE RESULTS...LITTLE RUSSIA

No sympathy here!


13 posted on 05/03/2025 8:09:43 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: fluorescence

Trump has put in place reciprocal tariffs, with punitive tariffs with China.


14 posted on 05/03/2025 8:10:31 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: rrrod
They hate Trump as do the Canadians and British.

They're brainwashed by the media in the West.

In this country, it's 48%.

15 posted on 05/03/2025 8:10:51 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: fluorescence

True test is to witness their financial stability and other measures as time goes on.


16 posted on 05/03/2025 8:11:55 AM PDT by jcon40 (Leftists are usually obnoxious Bullies)
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To: rrrod
Despite being a great beneficiary of America and relying on the US to defend their country, they vehemently hate Trump, and America, and their state-run media peddles anti-Trump stories every day.


17 posted on 05/03/2025 8:12:06 AM PDT by fluorescence
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To: jcon40

The Empire is striking back.


18 posted on 05/03/2025 8:12:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fluorescence

The left wing Dem run Pew adding its commie push polls via Left wing Reuters .
A nice lefty propaganda package .

Radical Left Brit Reuters spinning its new Socialist Talking points .Reuters just lies and spins 24/7

My nephews said Dutton was like our Bob Dole .
Ran a dull campaign and lefty media is owned is just like Canada .No conservative voices in media.


19 posted on 05/03/2025 8:23:42 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: fluorescence

Ankle biter countries throwing a tantrum. Americans don’t give a crap about Australian or Canadian politics. Outside of political jumkies like us. And even we find it bemusing that Trump is on slme other country’s ballot.

They can live in their own shit.


20 posted on 05/03/2025 8:23:54 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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