(Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP) (Associated Press)CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s prime minister on Thursday called a May 18 election that will be fought on issues including climate change, asylum seekers and economic management. “We live in the best country in the world,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters after advising the governor-general to authorize the election. But Morrison is the third prime minister to lead a divided government in that time and only took the helm in late August. Opinion polls suggest his reign will become one of the shortest in the 118-year history of Australian prime ministers on election day. Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd immediately signed up to the U.N.’s 1997 Kyoto Protocol on reducing emissions.

Source: Washington Post April 11, 2019 00:34 UTC