QUOTES FROM THE FEDERAL ELECTION
"I think it will be a night of surprises." - outgoing Liberal MP Julie Bishop
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"Morrison seems to be working better in the outer suburbs. It is almost a flip of 2016, the closer you get to the CBD, the more difficult it potentially becomes for us and that is where Malcolm was strong." - Senior Liberal strategist Arthur Sinodinos
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"Scott Morrison is the future. He has run a flawless campaign. There's not been a misstep." - Nationals leader Michael McCormack
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"I would prefer we got out of the blocks a bit better than we have." - Labor Senate leader Penny Wong (at 7.30pm)
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"Stay in the middle - that's what most Australians want." - Derryn Hinch
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"I'm sorry about Tony Abbott, really good fellow, it's a great loss to our parliament" - Barnaby Joyce
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"Scott Morrison will now, quite rightly, enter the Liberal pantheon forever." - Tony Abbott, celebrating what he saw as a likely coalition victory despite losing his own seat.
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"I'd rather be a loser than a quitter." - Abbott again.
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"Mr Palmer's relentless advertising, which essentially set a pox on everybody, is much more difficult for a party like ours." - Labor's Penny Wong
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"There is an amazing mood across Queensland and across the country in support of the prime minister." - Peter Dutton
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"Where climate change is a moral issue it's a problem for us; where climate change is an economic issue, I actually think it works to our benefit." - Abbott
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"The expectations on Labor for me felt way out of kilter in the lead up to the election compared to what was inevitably going to be the reality of a contest." - Labor MP Richard Marles
"We always thought there was a pathway to victory... Scott Morrison has run an amazing campaign." - Liberal senator Mathias Cormann
"The Liberals ran an extremely negative scare campaign. They just made up Labor policies ... there was the death duties attack that they just made up ... forcing people to drive electric cars, stealing your weekends, stealing your Tim Tam." - Tanya Plibersek
