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Australian Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese addresses supporters after incumbent Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Scott Morrison conceded defeat in the country's general election, in Sydney on May 21.
Australia will experience its first change in government in nine years after the opposition Labor Party won the federal election on May 21. Anthony Albanese, the party leader and new prime minister, got to work early, joining the heads of Japan, the U.S. and India in Tokyo for a meeting of the Quad framework on May 24.