Another slap to the orange face--from Australian elections

[malaise]

3. A massive slap

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/3/australia-election-results-2025-live-pm-albanese-faces-off-with-dutton

Labor has pledged that it intends to make it easier for young people to buy their first home. Albanese has also made a number of other promises, including a 20 percent cut to student debt.

So the focus has very much been on key domestic issues.

That perhaps makes this loss doubly embarrassing for the main opposition as they are often seen as the better economic managers,
and the fact that they lost an election that was very much fought on those issues will certainly raise some questions for them.