Anthony Albanese powers Labor to second term winning Australian election 2025, rival Dutton loses in his bastion

Anthony Albanese is all set to return as the Prime Minister of the country for the second straight term with his Australian Labor Party (ALP) is on course to secure majority in the federal election 2025. Albanese's principal rival Peter Dutton of the Liberal Party is facing political banishment after losing his own seat, Dickson, in Brisbane to Labor’s Ali France.

France proved to be third time lucky against Dutton having failed to unseat The Liberal leader in 2019 and 2022.

The pre-election survey's had predicted a Labor win and the results mirror the same. The party has put up a strong show in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and Victoria. It has managed to dent Liberals in many of its strongholds like Dickson as seen in Dutton's loss.

Albanese's party has managed to wrest many other seats from the Liberals like Banks, Bass, Bonner, Bowman, Braddon, Deakin, Forde, Hughes, Leichhardt, McPherson, Menzies and Petrie, reported news.com.au. He sis also the first prime minister since 2004 to win a second consecutive term. The last prime minister to achieve this feat was Liberal leader John Howard 21 years ago.

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With rising inflation and cost of living one of the major election issues, Albanese ran his entire campaign on making life easy for Australians and bringing in a vastly improved health care system. He also took a strong stand against US President Donald Trump's tariff wars.

These helped him turn the tide in Labor's favour which till the beginning of 2025 was fighting with its back to the wall.

With the tailwind in his favour, the election for Dutton to lose. His ambiguous policy on rising living cost, vocal endorsement for nuclear energy and going easy on Trump's tariffs cost his and his party dear.