SYDNEY: Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison called federal elections for May 21 on Sunday, launching a come-from-behind battle to stay in power after three years rocked by floods, bushfires and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Morrison's conservative government is struggling to woo Australia's 17 million voters, lagging behind the opposition Labor Party in a string of opinion polls despite presiding over a rebounding economy with a 13-year-low jobless rate of 4 percent.
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