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'Distrusted' Morrison calls for election on May 21

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 10 Apr 2022 09:12
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Scott Morrison's conservative government is failing to keep Australia's 17 million voters after a 13-year unemployment rate of 4%, why?

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On Sunday, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced federal elections for May 21, as he struggles to retain power after three years beleaguered by floods, bushfires, and the Covid-19 outbreak.

Morrison's conservative administration is attempting to win over Australia's 17 million voters, behind the opposition Labor party in a series of polls while presiding over a recovering economy with a 13-year low unemployment rate of 4%.

"This election is about you. No one else. It's about our country, and it's about its future," Morrison declared.

In a news conference in Canberra, the PM claimed that he knew "Australians have been through a very tough time. I also know that Australia continues to face very tough challenges in the years ahead."

According to polls, a large portion of the voters distrusts the 53-year-old leader, who portrays himself as a regular Australian family guy and is unafraid to publicize his Pentecostal Christian beliefs.

Politicians, including two disillusioned members of his own Liberal Party, have accused him of being a bully and an autocrat in the run-up to the election, with one stating he had "no moral compass."

59-year-old opposition Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese is using Morrison's performance during crises to end the rule of the Liberal-National Party.

A Newspoll survey showed Labor leading the coalition 54% to 46% on a two-party basis. 

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Morrison and Albanese were statistically tied for the next three-year term as chosen prime minister.

Multiple polls reveal that the expense of living, with fuel prices particularly high since the war in Ukraine, is a major issue ahead of the election.

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Morrison is an outspoken advocate of Australia's massive fossil fuel sector.

He has sworn to mine and sell coal for as long as there are consumers, has boasted of a "gas-fired recovery" from the epidemic, and has opposed global requests to reduce carbon emissions quicker by 2030.

Morrison brought his family to Hawaii for Christmas during the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires, which killed more than 30 people. After cutting his break short, Morrison told reporters, "I don't hold a hose, mate, and I don't sit in a control room."

After the pandemic hit, Morrison pumped money into the economy but faltered on vaccines and self-administered rapid antigen tests, according to Mark Kenny, professor at the Australian National University in Canberra.

The government was blamed for a lack of emergency planning after a two-week east coast flooding in February and March.

Morrison has also failed to win over female voters following his handling of rape charges leveled by a female political worker in government, as well as young voters turned off by his pro-coal attitude.

Two prominent advocates for sexual abuse survivors slam Australia's PM, accusing him of using "weasel words" to tame rampant sexual abuse.

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