Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expressed his concern at right-wing appeals to “toxic masculinity” in global elections, pledging not to engage in a Trump-like campaign ahead of the 2025 federal election.
Responding to a question about US President Donald Trump’s election victory, supported by the votes of young men, Albanese said, “What we won’t do is engage in some of the campaign strategies that we’ve seen from some of the right internationally.”
Speaking to The Daily Aus, Albanese said he wants to focus on the common interests of both young men and women.
“Toxic masculinity that is being appealed to is a concern. [It] doesn’t benefit societies as a whole,” he said.
“We need to work towards bringing together a common interest, from my perspective of young men and young women, both have an interest in a strong economy, both have an interest in equity, both have an interest in the planet that they are inheriting and that their children will inherit as well.”
The PM also touched on his government’s response to the conflict in Gaza, specifically how his government was combating antisemitism at home in Australia through “education”.
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“Just this week we announced funding for a National Centre to be in Canberra, and increased funding as well in Western Australia, at the centre that I visited there for Holocaust education,” Albanese said.
He remarked that Australia was seeing a rise in antisemitism that he hadn’t seen in his lifetime,
“It’s beyond my comprehension how anyone either does or funds the fire attack, arson attack on a child care centre that is near a synagogue there in Maroubra. That, to my mind, is just appalling.”
