Parliamentary elections are being held in Australia on Saturday. It is seen that the main competition in this election will be between the current ruling party Labor and the opposition party Liberal Coalition. In this election, all the parties have presented various people-centered programs as their main agenda.
Australia's Lower and Upper Parliaments are voting for a total of 226 seats. A total of 151 people will be elected in the lower house and 76 people will be elected in the Senate. The Labor Party, which is currently in government, has accelerated the election process since a few weeks ago, asking to elect its government for at least another 3-year term .
On the other hand, the Liberal Coalition has intensified its election campaign, claiming that the Labor government has failed to win the popular vote. In this year's Australian election, the party has put forward health, rising inflation control, housing, immigration, child care, mental health and other issues as the main agenda. Federal elections are held in Australia every three years.
In Australia, Labor is known as a party that has a somewhat looser policy on immigration than the Liberals. Although recently the current Labor government has amended various rules on immigration Has been tightened . In addition, both parties have announced additional programs worth billions of dollars for every citizen in Australia to get free medical check-ups. Labor has announced an additional 8.5 billion dollars for this work, while the Liberal Coalition has also said that it will spend the same amount on health as Labour's programme. If Labor is elected, it has announced that it will give $1,000 in tax breaks to employees every year, while the Liberals have announced a one-time $1,200 tax break. It is said that the tax will be exempted. Likewise, various programs including giving discounts on the oil used in vehicles have also been introduced.
Labor has said it will make Australia's immigration sector more organized and controlled, but has yet to announce a concrete program. The Liberals have mentioned that the annual number will be reduced from 160,000 to 100,000. Similarly, the annual permanent residence permit will be reduced from 185,000 to 140,000 for two years and then gradually increased to 160,000. In addition, the Liberals have said that they will again increase the student visa application fee . Although it is said that stricter rules will be introduced for international students, the plan has not been made public.
In Australia, 77 MPs are currently elected from the ruling party Labor and 53 MPs from the opposition Liberal Coalition. There are 13 independent MPs and other MPs from small parties. Similarly, in the Senate, there are 25 MPs from the ruling party, 30 from the opposition party, 11 from the Green Party, 4 from the Independent and other small parties.
After the ruling party Liberal Coalition suffered a bad defeat in the previous election, this time the party is trying to form its own government again. Opposition leader Peter Dutton and ruling Labor leader and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have been trying to get their agenda across to the people for a few weeks now.
Nepalese candidates too
This time, Vinod Poudel, a young man of Nepalese origin, has also become a candidate for the parliamentary election from the McArthur constituency in Sydney.
In the previous election, he lost to Michael Freelander in the same constituency and is hopeful that he will be elected this time. He claims that he will be elected because the policies of the Liberal Coalition are better than those of Labour.
Nepalis have already been supporting him in the election campaign to win. If he wins the election, he will be represented as the first MP of Nepali origin.
