{"id":80979,"date":"2026-11-06T01:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/australia-faces-same-issues-that-flipped-control-of-us-congress-in-midterms-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T01:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T06:55:08","slug":"australia-faces-same-issues-that-flipped-control-of-us-congress-in-midterms-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/australia-faces-same-issues-that-flipped-control-of-us-congress-in-midterms-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia faces same issues that flipped control of US Congress in midterms, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Albanese\u2019s government has taken a blow due to Iran war but voter anxiety around cost of living and datacentres may hit harder<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily political email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Democrats\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/us-midterms-is-it-the-end-for-trump\">stunning midterm victory<\/a> should broaden Australia\u2019s alliance with the US, observers say, even as a new power base emerges in Washington, affecting Aukus, datacentre development and relations with China.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet ministers, diplomats and Australia\u2019s defence industrial sector closely watched the results this week, with control of the US Congress flipping to the Democrats and the outlook for Donald Trump\u2019s final two years in office badly dinted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/nov\/06\/us-midterms-warning-for-australia-cost-of-living-fuel-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Albanese\u2019s government has taken a blow due to Iran war but voter anxiety around cost of living and datacentres may hit harder Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast The Democrats\u2019 stunning midterm victory should broaden Australia\u2019s alliance with the US, observers say, even as a new power base emerges &#8230; <a title=\"Australia faces same issues that flipped control of US Congress in midterms, experts say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/australia-faces-same-issues-that-flipped-control-of-us-congress-in-midterms-experts-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Australia faces same issues that flipped control of US Congress in midterms, experts say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}