‘Get out of the way’: Albanese asserts his mandate on Labor agenda


Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged the Greens and Coalition to support Labor's agenda, emphasizing his electoral mandate and highlighting upcoming international engagements, including a G7 summit meeting with President Trump.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has challenged the Greens and the Coalition to respect the outcome of the federal election by passing Labor’s agenda as soon as possible, declaring he wants action on housing, the environment and other reforms without obstruction.

Albanese warned opponents they would pay a political price if they did not respect the government’s mandate and backed his argument by pointing to the defeat of Greens and Liberal MPs who stymied the Labor agenda on housing in the last parliament.

A swaggering Anthony Albanese said other parties should respect his mandate.Credit: James Brickwood

The comments formed part of the prime minister’s first remarks at Parliament House since the election and followed a series of high-level phone calls on Monday morning, including talks with US President Donald Trump.

Albanese revealed he would attend the G7 summit in Canada in June, the likely location for his first meeting with Trump since the election. He said his conversation with the president canvassed the AUKUS submarine agreement and the American tariffs on Australian exports.

“I had a very warm and positive conversation with President Trump just a short while ago, when I was at the Lodge, and I thanked him for his very warm message of congratulations,” he said.

“We’ll continue to engage. We will engage with each other on a face-to-face basis at some time in the future, but it was very warm, and I thank him for reaching out in such a positive way.”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will host the G7 Leaders’ Summit from June 15 to 17 in Kananaskis, Alberta.

Asked if he would visit the US in June as well, Albanese said: “We’ll wait and see.” He said his first international visit in this term would be to Indonesia to meet President Prabowo Subianto.

While the international calls dominated the prime minister’s time on Monday morning, he turned to his domestic agenda at Parliament after a short walk from the Lodge.

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