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Australians voiced a mix of optimism and apathy Friday as they geared up to vote in Saturday’s tight national election, with cost-of-living pressures, housing affordability and U.S. tariff tensions shaping the contest.
On Friday, Australians gearing up for Saturday’s election expressed a mix of optimism and indifference. Student Archie Mackirty admitted feeling “stressed” by the state of global politics but said early polls showing the center-left Labor government poised to win “will be good” and “help the average Australian more.”
Others, like Jose Machado and Charlotte Woodrow, were more nonchalant. Machado quipped that Liberal leader Peter Dutton “is his own worst enemy” and that Anthony Albanese “just hasn’t got any guts,” leaving voters with few appealing options.
Polls close on Saturday, May 3, in what is shaping up to be a tight national contest dominated by concerns over the cost of living, housing affordability and trade frictions tied to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. With voting compulsory, nearly 7 million of the 18 million eligible Australians had already cast ballots early or by post, the Australian Electoral Commission reported.
Australian researchers have pioneered a low-cost and scalable plasma-based method to produce ammonia gas directly from air, offering a green alternative to the traditional fossil fuel-dependent Haber-Bosch process.
A series of earthquakes have struck Guatemala on Tuesday afternoon, leading authorities to advise residents to evacuate from buildings as a precaution against possible aftershocks.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,500-year-old city in northern Peru that likely served as a key trade hub connecting ancient coastal, Andean, and Amazonian cultures.
A deadly mass shooting early on Monday (7 July) in Philadelphia's Grays Ferry neighbourhood left three men dead and nine others wounded, including teenagers, as more than 100 shots were fired.
On July 4, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Khankendi, reaffirming the deep-rooted alliance between the two nations.
France recorded over 100 drowning deaths in just one month — a 58% rise from last year — as unusually high temperatures drove more people to water, public health officials say.
Germany’s public debt is projected to climb from 62.5% to 74% of GDP by 2030, driven by record defence and infrastructure spending, according to a report by the European rating agency Scope.
Migration offset natural decline for the fourth consecutive year, pushing the European Union’s population to an historic high of 450.4 million in 2024, according to Eurostat figures released on Friday.
The global oil market may be tighter than headline supply-demand figures suggest, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Friday, citing rising refinery activity and seasonal summer demand as key drivers of short-term market pressure.
China’s exports are expected to have grown 5% in June as manufacturers hurried goods abroad ahead of a 12 August deadline that could see the U.S. restore punitive tariffs, a Reuters survey of economists indicates.
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