Good morning. Last week, a left-of-centre party that had looked to be on the ropes triumphed after an astonishing turnaround partly triggered by the reverberations from Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House – and the Trump-adjacent leader of the rightwing party faced the humiliation of losing his seat. Well, it’s happened again.
The Australian election was different from the Canadian one in a lot of ways. But a second term for Anthony Albanese and the Labor party, and such a crushing defeat for the Coalition leader, Peter Dutton, is a significant result – the first time an Australian prime minister has won a second term in 21 years, coming even as a growing number of voters turn their backs on the main parties.
