WillAussieopppartywinmayelection
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Will Aussie opp party win may election
2022-05-20 17:01
As Australia goes to the polls on Saturday, the election race heats
up. According to the latest Newspoll, published by The Australian
newspaper on Wednesday, Labor leads the governing Coalition 51-49
on a two-party preferred basis. Polling has opposition Leader,
Anthony Albanese, charting a precarious path to potential
victory.
The governing Liberal-National Coalition has been in power since
2013 with three successive Prime Ministers. The current Prime
Minister, Scott Morrison, has led the Coalition since 2018 and is
the first Australian Prime Minister to serve a full term since
2007.
Cost of living pressures and inflation remain a focus in the dying
days of the election campaign. The conflict in Ukraine and global
pandemic -related supply chain disruptions for a record rise in
living costs which could jeopardize Liberal-National Coalition
chances of winning a national election to be held tomorrow. The
consumer prices surged at the fastest annual pace in two decades
last quarter, data out on Wednesday showed, as petrol,
home-building and food costs rose, fueling speculation interest
rates could rise from record lows as soon as next week. Australian
wage growth was also forecast to accelerate, but not by enough to
outpace inflation, leaving real incomes set to shrink .
The incumbent PM Scott
Morrison
Labor is on track to win this election. A Labor Party stalwart
having first entered parliament in 1996, Anthony Albanese,
Australia’s next potential prime minister, is the son of a single
mother from a council flat. He served as a Deputy Prime Minister
under the second Rudd Government in 2013 and a cabinet minister in
the Rudd and Gillard Governments from 2007 to 2013.
Labor has run a election campaign around Australia becoming a
renewable energy superpower, a manufacturing powerhouse, a skills
and education capital of Asia and a society that guarantees secure
work, cheaper childcare, and stronger, fairer Medicare and aged
care systems.
Anthony
Albanese
Iabor lost the last election despite showing similar positive
pre-election polling figures. Some attributed that loss to a
cluttered, overly ambitious policy reform agenda. In this election,
Labor is taking a far more streamlined, moderate approach on
policy. Labor has released the cost of the promises, which it says
will add $7.4 billion to the budget bottom line over the next four
years, including plans to crack down on multinational companies not
paying their fair share of tax, public sector efficiencies and fees
for foreign investment screening.
Labor claims its commitments are modest and represent no more than
an additional 0.4 per cent of the total budget in any year of the
forward estimates but will deliver significant and meaningful
ongoing cost of living relief and long-term economic benefits.
Another focus of Labor’s Budget reply was on aged care, an area
where shortcomings have been highlighted throughout the
pandemic.
Albanese has promised a new Government would continue to pursue
Australia’s strategic interests through structures like the Quad
and AUKUS, but it would also focus more heavily on regional
engagement with ASEAN and Pacific Island nations, which is a
central element of Labor’s foreign policy tradition.
