Anthony Albanese Re-elected as Australian Prime Minister for Second Consecutive 3-Year Term.
Appointment
In May 2025, Anthony Norman Albanese, the incumbent Prime Minister (PM) of Australia and leader of the center-left Labor Party (LP), was re-elected in the federal elections, securing a second consecutive 3-year term. With this victory, he became the first Australian PM in two decades to achieve two back-to-back terms.
- As per the estimates by the Australian Electoral Commission, Albanese’s Labor Party secured 70 seats, while the opposition conservative coalition led by Peter Dutton won only 24 seats in the 150-member House of Representatives, the lower house of the Australian Parliament.
- Anthony Albanese began his political journey in 1979 by joining the Labor Party and was first elected to Parliament in 1996 as the Member for Grayndler (Sydney seat).
- He has since been re-elected to the House of Representatives 9 times: 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022.
Main Point :- (i) Anthony Norman Albanese served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia from June 2013 to September 2013, and later held the position of Leader of the Opposition from May 2019 to May 2022; he has also been serving as the Leader of the Labor Party since 2019.
(ii) As Infrastructure and Communications Minister (July–September 2013), he implemented key nation-building projects, including the rollout of the high-speed fibre National Broadband Network (NBN).
(iii) In May 2022, he became the 31st Prime Minister of Australia, leading the first Labor government since 2013.
About Australia
Prime Minister : Anthony Norman Albanese
Capital : Canberra
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