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Good afternoon, I’m Millie Muroi and I’ll be taking over from Nick Newling as we continue our live coverage after last night’s thumping Labor victory.
If you’re just joining us, here’s what’s happened today:
- World leaders including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron have congratulated Albanese on his victory.
- Nationals Leader David Littleproud said he didn’t think “nuclear was the reason we lost this [election]” and that Labor had won by “destroying” Dutton’s character.
- Outgoing Liberal stalwart Warren Entsch said his party’s policies were repeatedly made “on the run”, drawing ire from the backbench.
- Keith Wolahan, the Liberal member for the suburban Melbourne seat of Menzies, said Australians were looking for predictability, as he faced the likelihood of losing his seat.
- The prime minister shared a coffee with Labor supporters, fiancee Jodie Haydon, Bennelong MP Jerome Laxale and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher at Bar Italia in Sydney’s Leichhardt.
- Albanese said he felt for Dutton and thanked him for his generous concession speech last night.
- Treasurer Jim Chalmers wouldn’t be drawn on his leadership ambitions after backing in Albanese for a third consecutive election.
- Labor’s Ali France, who ousted Dutton from his Brisbane seat of Dickson, said he had told her she’d make a great MP.
- Teal MP Zoe Daniel said a result in the key Melbourne seat of Goldstein could be days away despite claiming victory on Saturday night.
Many supporters never believed Albanese’s victory would come so easily.
But as the prime minister toured his home turf in the afterglow of the landslide win on Sunday morning, inner-west Sydney locals were keen to share in his joy.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese receives a record during a visit to Bar Italia, in Leichhardt, NSWCredit: Alex Ellinghausen
Joshua Gibbs, who owns music store Crosstalk Records in Albanese’s electorate, gifted him a vinyl of Easy by Aussie rockers The Easybeats as he made the morning rounds.
“Nobody thought it was going to be easy, but looks like it was Alban-easy,” he said.
He told AAP the prime minister had visited his store before and often received a rock star reception in the area, with Gibbs feeling somewhat giddy himself after Albanese thanked him.
Election night was a fizzer for Clive Palmer, whose Trumpet of Patriots party failed to elect anyone despite the mining magnate’s $50 million estimated advertising expenditure, while Coalition hopes that One Nation preferences would help it win seats were dashed.
Dutton spent much of his last week on the campaign trail claiming he could form government, with conservative sources briefing the media that One Nation could get 10 per cent of the vote that would overwhelmingly flow to the Coalition.
Clive Palmer’s new party failed to pick up any seats as Pauline Hanson’s One Nation also failed to meet expectations.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
But voters had baseball bats rather than bouquets for far-right parties.
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation got 6.15 per cent of first preference votes, as of the count on Sunday, up only slightly from the 5 per cent it received in 2022.
The Trumpet of Patriots was punished for its deliberate association with Trump, claiming just 1.85 per cent of the vote. Read the full story here.
Good afternoon, I’m Millie Muroi and I’ll be taking over from Nick Newling as we continue our live coverage after last night’s thumping Labor victory.
If you’re just joining us, here’s what’s happened today:
- World leaders including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron have congratulated Albanese on his victory.
- Nationals Leader David Littleproud said he didn’t think “nuclear was the reason we lost this [election]” and that Labor had won by “destroying” Dutton’s character.
- Outgoing Liberal stalwart Warren Entsch said his party’s policies were repeatedly made “on the run”, drawing ire from the backbench.
- Keith Wolahan, the Liberal member for the suburban Melbourne seat of Menzies, said Australians were looking for predictability, as he faced the likelihood of losing his seat.
- The prime minister shared a coffee with Labor supporters, fiancee Jodie Haydon, Bennelong MP Jerome Laxale and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher at Bar Italia in Sydney’s Leichhardt.
- Albanese said he felt for Dutton and thanked him for his generous concession speech last night.
- Treasurer Jim Chalmers wouldn’t be drawn on his leadership ambitions after backing in Albanese for a third consecutive election.
- Labor’s Ali France, who ousted Dutton from his Brisbane seat of Dickson, said he had told her she’d make a great MP.
- Teal MP Zoe Daniel said a result in the key Melbourne seat of Goldstein could be days away despite claiming victory on Saturday night.
Ali France has revealed the details of the conversation she had with Dutton as he conceded the seat of Dickson on Saturday night.
Thanking visitors and supporters near Dutton’s electoral office on Sunday, France said “he was lovely”.
“He said to me, ‘Congratulations, you’re going to make a great MP’.
Ali France thanks supporters in Dickson on Sunday morning.Credit: Cameron Atfield
“He said, ‘Your son, Henry, would be so proud of you’.”
France said she had little doubt Henry, who died of leukemia aged 19 last year, would be proud of her election victory.
“This is something that Henry and I talked about constantly – he loved that I was doing this,” she said, as a tear formed in the corner of her eye.
“… I hope I’ve made him proud because he made me proud.”
Read the full story here.
After unsuccessfully challenging Peter Dutton in the 2019 and 2022 races for the Brisbane seat of Dickson, Ali France was finally able to take the seat last night — with an 8.25 per cent swing to the ALP.
So who is Ali France, and how did she become the first person in Australian history to unseat a sitting opposition leader?
Watch this video to find out:
Teal MP Zoe Daniel says a result could be days away in Goldstein despite claiming victory at her election party on Saturday night.
After midday, with just over 74 per cent of the vote counted, Daniel was leading with 51 per cent of the two-party preferred vote, ahead of Liberal candidate Tim Wilson on 49 per cent.
Teal independent Zoe Daniel claimed victory on Saturday night.Credit: Penny Stephens
She was not available for interview on Sunday but issued a brief statement at midday.
“The result in Goldstein is obviously close and it will be some days before the result is confirmed,” she said.
“I again thank the voters of Goldstein for their support as well as the many volunteers who worked tirelessly on my campaign.”
Read the full story in the Victoria’s hot seats blog here.
Victorian Labor Premier Jacinta Allan said her government would take nothing for granted after the federal party defied expectations and virtually wiped the opposition out of the state.
She embraced her state Labor colleagues at a press conference in Melbourne’s northern suburbs on Sunday morning after celebrating with party faithful at the Trades Hall on Saturday night.
“We fight every single day, and all of us here, I know, take nothing for granted, because it’s an absolute privilege … to be a member of parliament. For me, it’s an absolute privilege to also be a Labor premier, and that’s not something we take for granted because we know we have to, we must remain focused,” Allan said.
She would not be drawn on commentary that the results did not give her a free pass. But she declared that her government was not a drain on federal Labor.
“I think the results yesterday, they’re not despite what’s going on here in Victoria. They’re because of what’s going on here in Victoria.”
The Liberal campaign had sought to tie federal Labor to Allan, hoping to capitalise on her tanking likeability in consistent polls. The Resolve Political Monitor for this masthead found state Labor’s primary vote was just 24 per cent in Victoria.
There is a slim chance that Calwell, a seat in Melbourne’s north-west held by Labor, may fall to an independent if counting goes against the ALP.
While the count shows Labor candidate Basem Abdo well ahead, some poll watchers in the seat have said there is potential for independent Carly Moore to ultimately win.
If Moore outpolls Liberal candidate Usman Ghani, all preferences in the seat will largely flow to her.
Labor strategists said while they remained optimistic Abdo would ultimately win, it was a seat they would be watching closely in scrutineering at the Epping AEC centre, where the count continues on Sunday.
A couple of hundred metres down the road from Peter Dutton’s Gympie Road electorate office, Ali France has been out thanking Dickson voters, prompting a cacophony of car horns in response.
Joining about a dozen campaign volunteers on the side of the busy road, France said she always thought it was going to be a close contest, but suspected she had the edge going into Saturday’s vote.
A Labor volunteer congratulates Ali France.Credit: Cameron Atfield
Not that France ever thought it was a sure thing.
“I was shocked last night. It just took my breath away. I feel so grateful. It’s just such an incredible privilege to be able to do this,” she said.
It was France’s third attempt to win Dickson, after failed campaigns in 2019 and 2022 did not put her off.
“I just thought this fight was worthwhile. It was always worthwhile, and it was always about values and, whether I won or lost, it was about standing up for this community and saying we can do better,” she said.
The ABC’s election coverage dominated television screens across the country on Saturday night as Labor swept to a landslide majority.
The public broadcaster was by some distance the most popular choice for Australians to watch the results come in despite some technical glitches for chief elections analyst Antony Green.
The ABC’s Saturday evening broadcast reached more than 4 million people.
Antony Green sits on the ABC election set ahead of what he said was his last election.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
Its programming between 8.30-10pm was the most viewed of the evening, with an average audience of 2.36 million. Its average audience remained steady, about 2 million viewers across the night.
Network Seven’s coverage was the second most popular. Its results broadcast reached 2.78 million people; however, it had an average audience of 580,000, significantly lower than the ABC’s.
Nine’s coverage reached 2.42 million viewers, with an average audience of 527,000 watching the results roll in. Network 10’s coverage, while reaching 1.74 million people, had an average audience of just 97,000, while Sky News Regional’s average viewership was 68,000.
Reach describes the total number of unique viewers having watched a program for at least one minute, while average describes the average audience watching across the length of the program on broadcast and streaming platforms, such as ABC iview and 9Now.
