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Global News Podcast

Australian PM Albanese makes stunning comeback with landslide win

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Supporters of Australia's governing Labor party led by Anthony Albanese have been celebrating a resounding victory in the general election. Also: Trump criticised after posting AI image of himself as Pope.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.3

I'm Janet Jaliel and in the early hours of Sunday the 4th of May, these are our main stories.

0:10.7

Australia's governing Labour Party has won an increased majority in a general election

0:15.1

which was upended by Donald Trump's policy on tariffs.

0:19.2

The medical charity MSF has condemned a deadly attack on one

0:23.0

of its hospitals in South Sudan as fears grow of a return to civil war there. Warren Buffett,

0:30.0

one of the world's most influential investors, has surprised shareholders by announcing he'll retire

0:35.8

by the end of the year.

0:40.7

Also in this podcast?

0:46.5

Three women and a child, their socks soaked with the water swamping literally at their feet below and the slathering mouths of several alligators looking at them, hungry

0:52.8

alligators.

0:53.7

How five people who's playing crashed in alligator-infested waters in the Amazon

0:59.2

managed to survive.

1:06.0

Just days after Canada's general election resulted in a left-leaning leader making an unexpected

1:12.1

comeback because of fears about President Trump's tariffs, the same, as it seems, happened in

1:18.4

Australia.

1:19.6

The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was returned to power with his Labour Party

1:24.4

expanding its majority, despite opinion polls at the start of the year,

1:29.0

showing it trailing the Liberal National Coalition.

1:32.7

The Conservative opposition leader, Peter Dutton, who had been compared to Donald Trump,

1:37.1

lost the seat that he's held for more than two decades.

1:40.7

He said he accepted full responsibility for the defeat.

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