- Albanese is looking for a re -election, faces the head of the opposition Peter Dutton.
- Prime Minister Albanese promises to focus on renewable energies, health care.
- Result likely to be announced this evening in the middle of the compulsory vote.
Sydney: The vote began through Australia on Saturday in a national election dominated by the price increase, climate anxiety and the disturbing influence of US President Donald Trump.
From supermarket shelves to world titles, inflation and foreign policy have largely weighed on the campaign.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is looking for a second term, facing Peter Dutton, who aroused controversy with his praise for Trump.
The almost universal consensus through a series of opinion polls leading to the day of the ballot was that the Albanian Labor Labor Party would win a second term.
“I will not leave anything on the field in the next three years if I am re -elected as a Australian Prime Minister,” Albanese told Channel seven on Saturday morning.
“I hope we receive a majority government today so that we can rely on the foundations we have laid. Australia has turned the corner.
The first surveys opened at 8:00 am (2200 GMT) on the east coast of Australia, later followed by the western cities of the country and the distant islands.
A total of 18.1 million voters registered in the elections. More than a third of them voted at the start, said electoral authority.
Voting is compulsory, imposed by fines of $ 20 in (US $ 13), which caused participation rates above 90%.
A result could happen on Saturday evening, unless the vote is very tight.
Albanese, 62, has promised to embrace renewable energies, to tackle an aggravation of the housing crisis and to pay money in a creaky health system.
Flump Trump
The chief of the Liberal Party and former police officer Dutton, 54, wants to reduce immigration, to repress crime and to abandon a long -standing ban on nuclear energy.
Some surveys have shown that Dutton fled to support because of the American president Trump, which he praised this year as “big thinker” with “gravitas” on the world scene.
“I mean, Donald Trump is as crazy as a snake cut, and we all know it,” said voter Alan Whitman, 59, before voting on Saturday.
“And we owe on tiptoe around that.
While the Australians embittered Trump, Dutton and Albanese took a more pugnacious tone.
“If I needed to fight with Donald Trump or any other world leader, to advance the interest of our nation, I would do it in the blink of an eye,” said Dutton in April.
Albanian condemned Trump’s prices as an act of “economic self-aging” and “not the act of a friend”.
Economic concerns have dominated the competition for the many Australian households who find it difficult to pay swollen prices for milk, bread, energy and essence.
“The cost of living – it is extremely high at the moment. Thus, taxes too is also another very great thing. Fuel prices, all basic things, “Human Resources Director, Robyn Knox, told AFP in Brisbane.
The owner of small businesses, Jared Bell, had similar concerns.
“Our grocery stores are certainly much more expensive than they were a few years ago,” he said.
Tripping out
Albanian and Dutton tried to show up men of the people, but were perplexed when they were asked for the price of eggs in a national television debate.
The superpower of Australia coal will choose between two leaders with highly contrasting ideas on climate change and the reduction of emissions.
The Albanian government has adopted the global push towards decarbonization, warning of a future in which iron ore and pollution of coal exports no longer supports the economy.
Dutton’s signature policy is a 200 billion US dollars program to build seven nuclear reactors on an industrial scale, which removes the need to strengthen renewable energies.
The 36 -day campaign was a largely Staid case, but there were a few moments of unicenized lightness.
Albanian fell back the scene during a rally rally lifting, while Dutton did blood when he hit an unpisslected cameraman with a wandering football.
It remains to be seen if Albanian or Dutton will order a pure and simple majority, or if they are forced to tinker together with the support of minor parties.
The growing disenchantment among voters has embraced independents who are growing greater transparency and climate progress.
Surveys have suggested that 10 non -aligned or more cross -wraps could hold the balance of powers – to make a rare minority government a distinct possibility.
