Australia’s Labor Party, buoyed by anti-Trump bump, wins landslide reelection

Anthony Albanese became the first Australian prime minister to win a second term in more than two decades as his Labor Party dramatically increased its parliamentary majority. “We do not need to beg or borrow or copy from anywhere else,” Albanese said to a raucous Sydney crowd. The success of Britain’s upstart anti-immigration party in local elections Thursday had raised expectations that Australia’s far-right One Nation party might perform strongly. The biggest story from Australia’s election was the collapse by Dutton, the leader of a conservative coalition made up of his Liberal Party and the rural National Party. At his victory party, the prime minister and his deputies were characteristically disciplined with their comments.