For the second time in a week, voters in a prominent U.S. ally angered by President Donald Trump punished conservatives and reelected a left-leaning incumbent.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was poised to win the largest victory for his center-left Labor Party since 1946, both in terms of two-party preferred and overall seat count. He¡¯s the first Australian leader to win consecutive elections in more than two decades, and the only one to increase his party¡¯s vote share after one term since World War II.
¡°We do not need to beg, or borrow, or copy from anywhere else,¡± Albanese said in his victory speech on Saturday night. ¡°We do not seek our inspiration overseas. We find it right here, in our values and in our people.¡±
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