Australians vote tomorrow amid global financial turmoil caused by Trump's tariffs, with frontrunners Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton making final appeals to voters.
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00:00Australians head to the polls tomorrow amid global financial turmoil sparked by US President Donald Trump's tariffs.
00:08As the campaign draws to a close, both frontrunners Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are making their final appeals to voters.
00:18Australia remains one of the few democracies with mandatory voting,
00:22with close to 7 million out of 18 million eligible voters having already cut their ballot by Friday.
00:28Similar to Canada, where Trump's tariffs boosted Prime Minister Mark Carney's political standing,
00:34the US President's disruption of global trade coincided with a rise in support for Albanese.
00:40Opinion polls already show Albanese's centre-left Labour Party leading the conservative Liberal National Coalition on a two-party preferred basis.
00:50Polls also show that Labour could find itself leading a minority government,
00:54but the party has largely lost support among voters,
00:57increasingly concerned over how the government will handle Trump.
01:01Research Foundation Lowy Institute found last month that only 36% of Australians expressed any level of trust in the US,
01:09the lowest in its annual polls' two-decade history.