Over two weeks in late May into early June, three important mining districts are going to the polls, with mining and climate change set to influence outcomes to varying degrees. At press time, a federal election in mining-friendly Australia had already taken place. On May 21, Auss-ies chose a new government under Labour Party leader Anthony Albanese. The centre-left Albanese replaces Scott Morrison, who has led the Liberal Party and the ruling conservative Liberal-National coalition as prime minister since 2018, Albanese has signalled a new climate focus for Australia, which under-Morrison had the weakest climate policies of all the G20 nations, and in his victory speech, said that the nation could become a renewable energy "superpower."
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