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May 20, 2019

Australian Voters Choose Conservative PM Morrison Over Opponent Who Vowed to Tackle Climate Change
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In Australia, voters and pollsters were left in shock after the
conservative government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison won an election
that was largely favored to go to the Labor opposition, which ran on a
platform of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and taking on the
challenges of climate change. Scott Morrison, who is pro-Trump, has
backed major coal mine projects and introduced anti-immigrant policies,
most notably turning away asylum seekers to Australia and sending them
to migrant camps on remote islands.


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