US President Donald Trump has praised his “very good relationship” with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who defeated an opponent seen by voters as too similar to the American leader in an election on Saturday.

Albanese holds ‘warm’ talks with Trump on Aukus and tariffs after election win - Anthony Albanese is first Australian prime minister in decades to win a second straight term

By Renju Jose and Peter Hobson SYDNEY/CANBERRA (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday he had a "warm conversation" with U.S. President Donald Trump on tariffs and the AUKUS defence pact after his centre-left Labor party decisively beat the conservatives in a weekend election.