- Title: Australia PM Albanese calls national election for May 3
- Date: 27th March 2025
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (MARCH 7, 2025) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR OF CENTRE FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY, DR SAMIR PURI, SAYING: "The rules of engagement and the rules of self-defence and what to do if the peacekeeping or stabilisation mission is in any way attacked. These are some of the most vexing and difficult questions to grapple with. One
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- Keywords: Anthony Albanese Australia Peter Dutton election government politics
- Location: SYDNEY AND CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
- City: SYDNEY AND CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA003223927032025RP1
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- Story Text: EDITOR'S NOTE: SLATE MEANT TO READ SYDNEY AND CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday (March 28) called a national election for May 3, launching a five-week campaign that is set to be dominated by cost-of-living pressures.
Albanese's Labor party won a majority at the last federal election in 2022, but most recent opinion polls show the party neck-and-neck with the opposition Liberal-National coalition when votes from smaller parties are redistributed.
Albanese earlier in the morning met the country's Governor-General Sam Mostyn to seek permission to call a nationwide federal election.
Under Australia's constitution the prime minister must formally seek permission to call an election from the governor-general, who represents the head of state, Britain's King Charles.
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