#AUSTRALIA: New Labor Party Leader Vows Party Will Be More "Pro-Business"

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Newly elected Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese says the party will do things differently to win the next election, indicating a pro-business shift and an appeal to “successful” Australians.

Repudiating former party leader Bill Shorten’s campaign rhetoric that targeted the wealthy, Albanese emphasised his links to corporate Australia, and singled out the party’s franking credit policy as a key failure of Labor’s bid for election.

The Shorten-led Labor Party was defeated in last month's national election, with Liberal Party Prime Minister Scott Morrison winning convincingly.

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#AUSTRALIA: PM Morrison Defeats Labor's Shorten, Defying Polls

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In a victory some are comparing to Donald Trump's, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defied years of opinion polls and public expectation to lead the right-leaning Coalition to a shocking election victory Saturday.

Morrison's Liberal Party will form a government in parliament with the help of one or more smaller parties.

The result is a crushing defeat for the Labor Party, with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten immediately announcing he will step down as the party's leader.

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#AUSTRALIA: Media Union Complains After Being Shut Out Of Dinner Featuring Opposition Leader's Speech

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The union representing journalists has called "absurd’" the Australian Council of Trade Unions' decision to ban the media from attending Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's address to the ACTU Congress dinner. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance said it had registered a complaint with the ACTU over the exclusion of journalists from the dinner in Brisbane. MEAA Media section president Marcus Strom said it was “the first time anyone can recall journalists being excluded from the Congress dinner." Media reports said people were Tweeting and live-streaming the event. UK Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn also spoke at the event.

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#AUSTRALIA: Oppo. Ldr. Bill Shorten Wants To Lengthen Gov't Term To Four Years

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Australians could be asked to give a Federal government four years in charge of the nation’s finances, with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten saying an end to revolving-door politics would boost confidence across the country. Shorten said he was looking for bipartisan support that both sides of politics would take to the next Federal election, promising a referendum on ditching three-year terms. And there is support within the Government after a prominent backbencher earlier this year introduced a Bill in Parliament to move to four years.

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#AUSTRALIA: PM Turnbull Lobs Verbal Assault On Oppo Ldr Shorten After Week Of Attacks On Wealth

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A fired-up Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has let loose on the leader of the opposition, Bill Shorten, in a withering attack in Parliament, accusing him of being "a social climbing sycophant" of billionaires, a "parasite" and of being a corrupt union leader when he headed a union. The spirited attack after a week of attacks from Shorten on Turnbull for being wealthy, which Turnbull conceded. Twitter users said they were glad Turnbull finally found his voice and went on the attack. He said, in part:

"There was never a union leader in Melbourne that tucked his knees under more billionaire’s tables than the leader of the opposition. He lapped it up, yes, he lapped it up. He was such a sycophant, a social-climbing sycophant if ever there was one. There has never been a more sycophantic leader of the Labor Party than this one and he comes here and poses as a Tribune of the people. He likes harborside mansions, he is yearning for one, he is yearning to get into Kirribilli House, because somebody else pays for it! Just like he loved knocking back Dick Pratt’s Cristal and looked forward to living at the expense of the taxpayer, this man is a parasite and has no respect for the taxpayer!

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Pictured: Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce laughs heartily during Turnbull's attack.

#AUSTRALIA: PM Turnbull Finally Declares Victory, Days After Election

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declared victory in the federal election, saying it is vital for the nation that all sides of politics work together to make this term of parliament work. Turnbull's victory speech Sunday afternoon came just hours after Opposition Leader Bill Shorten rang him to concede defeat.

#AUSTRALIA: PM Turnbull/Liberals Falling Short Of Majority Gov't Numbers In Close Election; Counts Continue

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Prime Minister Trumbull's Liberal Party seems to have fallen short of the necessary votes needed to form a majority government in parliament, following Saturday's election. Estimates showed Liberals had won 67 seats, nine fewer than the 76 needed to command a majority in the Lower House. While Labor Party Leader Bill Shorten fell short of being able to form even a minority government, but they have staged an amazing comeback that has again highlighted the volatility of modern Australian politics.

#AUSTRALIA: Labor Ldr. Bill Shorten Says Attacks On PM Turnbull's Cayman Island Investments Isn't Personal

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Labor Leader Bill Shorten - who was accused of “throwing mud” at wealthy prime minister Malcolm Turnbull - says the party's focus on investment in funds registered in the Cayman Islands is not about any allegation of criminality, but whether he understands the plight of ordinary Australians.

#AUSTRALIA: Labor Pty Ldr #BillShorten Pressured To Support "Ambitious" Climate Targets

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An environmental group is pressuring Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to take ambitious climate targets into the next federal election. The Labor Environment Action Network has growing support within the Labor Party for its "50/50" campaign, calling for 50 per cent of electricity production from renewable sources by 2030.

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Bill Shorten Likely to Win Labor Leadership, Polls Support Anthony Albanese [world politics news]

Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten. Photo: Angela Wylie

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All Contenders for Labor Party Leadership Support Gay Marriage [world politics news]