Qatar- Australians will Go to Polls on 2 July

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Canberra May 08 (QNA) - Australians will go to the polls on 2 July after the longest election campaign in the country's history.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called the election several months early after the country's upper house repeatedly blocked legislation.
On Sunday the prime minister asked the Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove to dissolve both the lower and upper houses of parliament according to the (BBC).
The economy education and health are likely to dominate the campaign.
"The governor-general has accepted my advice to dissolve both houses of parliament effective tomorrow morning and call an election for both houses a double dissolution on 2 July" said Turnbull on Sunday.
In the House of Representatives all 150 seats will be contested as well as the 76 Senate seats - the first time this has happened in an early election since 1987. (QNA)