Australia PM Albanese boosted by historic by-election win

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday he would not “get carried away” after his Labor party defied the odds to snatch a seat from the
opposition at a by-election, a 100-year first, even as voters battled higher living costs.
Labor’s Mary Doyle won the weekend by-election for the lower house federal seat of Aston in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs with a swing of more than 6%, in a blow to the conservative Liberal-National opposition coalition in one of its traditional strongholds in Victoria state.
Albanese said the government’s focus on making a practical difference in people’s lives resonated with voters, who understood the spike in living costs was because of global supply chain problems linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
But despite calling the election result “a historic win”, Albanese said his government would remain grounded.