Australia’s Albanese calls national election for May 3 | Politics News

Australian prime minister sets off five-week election campaign set to be dominated by cost-of-living issues.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called a national election for May 3, seeking a second three-year term for his Labor Party government in a contest set to be dominated by cost-of-living concerns.

Albanese said on Friday that the election would be a choice between his government’s plan to “keep building” and the rival Liberal Party-led coalition’s mooted cuts to…