Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has won re-election, securing a majority for his Labor Party in a surprise turnaround election. The vote was fueled in part by backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump, where comparisons between Trump and opposition leader Peter Dutton damaged his conservative Liberal Party and resulted in him losing his own seat.
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00:00Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has secured a historic second term,
00:05pulling off a major comeback in an election fueled by backlash against US President Donald Trump.
00:11And our government will choose the Australian way,
00:15because we are proud of who we are and all that we have built together in this country.
00:21We do not need to beg or borrow or copy from anywhere else.
00:26Current projections show Albanese's Labour Party securing a comfortable majority.
00:35The Conservative Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton, who has been dogged by comparisons to Trump,
00:40lost his own parliamentary seat in the state of Queensland.
00:43It's the first time in Australian history that a federal opposition leader has been unseated in a general election.