Australia's re-elected prime minister says voters choose unity rather than division

Melbourne, Australia - Australia's re-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese greeted Sydney cafe on Sunday and said the country had voted for unification.

Albanis' center-left Labor Party won a major victory in Saturday's election. As the voting calculation continues, the government is expected to win at least 85 seats in the 150-seat House, while the House of Commons requires a majority to form the government.

Labour has 78 seats in the former parliament and rarely receives a second seat in Australian politics.

“The Australian people vote for unity rather than division,” Albanes told reporters in a crowded café in Lechhart, an internal suburb, where he and his fiancee Jodie Haydon gathered with colleagues and supporters for coffee.

He added: “We will be a disciplined, orderly government for the second semester, just like we did in our first term.”

He noted that he often went to cafes with his late mother, Marryanne Albanese, as a child, and he became an ineffective pensioner. She raised her only child in a nearby public housing.

"I must have thought of her last night, too. She would be very proud," Albanese said of his mother being a member of the Labor Party.

In the election results, reminiscent of Canada's recent match, conservative opposition leader Peter Dutton lost his seat in parliament. His party league has been reduced to 37 seats.

Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre lost his seat after U.S. President Donald Trump declared an economic war against U.S. neighbors. Poilievre was previously considered Canada's next prime minister and brought its Conservative Party back to power for the first time in a decade.

Senior Australian lawmakers say they feared that by the end of last year they would become the first government to be abandoned three years after the turmoil of the Great Depression in 1931.

Like the left-wing Canadian government, the Australian government links its political rivals to the Trump administration and its ministry of efficiency led by Elon Musk.

Australia has been hit in the five-week election, with export taxes to the United States at 10 per cent despite decades of deficits with bilateral free trade partners.

Opposition leaders have been called "Doge-Y Dutton" and Labor warned that the Dutton administration would cut public sector services to pay for seven government-funded nuclear power plants.

Labor said Dutton had never run at any of the proposed power plant sites and believed that conservatives were aware that nuclear reactors were unpopular. Australia does not have nuclear power generation.

Labor also accused Dutton of igniting the cultural war. Although Albanes stood in front of two Aboriginal flags on Australian flags and media announcements, Dutton had said that as prime minister, he would only stand in front of the flag.

Aboriginal Australians make up 4% of the population and are the most unfavorable ethnic minority in the United States.

Since Conservative John Howard's conservative John Howard in 2004, Albanese has become Australia's first Australian Prime Minister to lead a party in an election victory.

Howard's 11-year reign ended in the next general election in 2007. Like Dutton, Howard lost seats in parliament and government. Howard's departure coincided with the beginning of a period of extraordinary political instability that created a revolving door for political leaders. Since Howard, there have been six prime ministers, including one who has held the role twice in a separate term of three years apart.

Albanes said the first world leader congratulated his election victory as Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape

“He is a very good friend,” Albanese said. "I told him that it's still time to call."

Albanis also spoke with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and received congratulatory texts from British Prime Minister Kier Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Albanis said he will talk to Indonesian President Prabowo Subuming and Ukrainian President Vodimir Zelensky later on Sunday.