Opposition leader Peter Dutton fails to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies and loses his seat
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Australia’s centre-left prime minister Anthony Albanese has won a second term with a crushing victory over the opposition, whose leader, Peter Dutton, lost his own seat in the Brisbane suburbs.
Albanese’s Labor party scored an unexpectedly comfortable win on Saturday, after a five-week election campaign that was dominated by the cost of living and the Donald Trump factor, which appeared to damage Dutton.
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