Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, wearing a suit, tie and glasses, standing at a lectern and speaking.

The Albanese Labor government has won a second term. Source: AAP / Lukas Coch

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Anthony Albanese and Labor win the federal election as Peter Dutton loses his seat — as it happened

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has won a second term and is projected to have an increased majority, while Opposition leader Peter Dutton has lost his seat to Labor's Ali France.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, wearing a suit, tie and glasses, standing at a lectern and speaking.

The Albanese Labor government has won a second term. Source: AAP / Lukas Coch

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4 days ago
Price says Coalition should have released policies earlier
Coalition Indigenous Australians spokesperson Jacinta Price has said the Coalition should have released its policies earlier as she reflects on the news of a Labor re-election.

"I think that was important for Australians to understand exactly what it is we were offering," she said from the marginal Northern Territory seat of Lingiari.

Price said the Coalition also should have gone "harder" on cultural issues.

"We could have gone harder also on calling out the prime minister and his lies, because apparently all you have to do is lie to the Australian people," Price told Sky News.

"That's an effective enough campaign to maintain government."

- Ewa Staszewska
4 days ago
Nationals Senate leader says 'Trump factor absolutely' influenced election
National’s Senate leader Bridget McKenzie says "the Trump factor has absolutely had a role in the election".

McKenzie said the
tariffs and global uncertainty
weighed on voters' minds.

"But no doubt, the election of president Trump and how the curveballs he threw into the global trading market had an impact here at home because we are a trading nation," she said.

Discussions of
Trump's influence have continued
throughout the campaign.

— Veronica Lenard
4 days ago
Peter Dutton's colleagues reflect on his 'greatest achievements'
Liberal senator Jane Hume has described Peter Dutton as "very popular" among his colleagues.

"I'm not just talking about one faction or another faction, any of that nonsense. He is a very good man", she told 7NEWS.

Former Labor minister Bill Shorten described the remarks as "a great eulogy".

He went on to say: "I know where Peter Dutton is going to be tonight. To him and his family, it's really tough ... I don't doubt that.

But what we have seen tonight is history being made. Anthony Albanese is the first prime minister since John Howard likely to be re-elected with a majority ... That is big, earthquake stuff.'

Clive Palmer, the Trumpet of Patriots leader, said: "Peter Dutton's greatest achievement was keeping the Liberal Party together. But that is not the question tonight."

Palmer believes the question is whether Dutton has "the competence and ability to provide leadership for the nation".

— Yasmine Alwakal and Phoebe Mcilwraith
4 days ago
Peter Dutton predicted to lose his seat of Dickson
Extraordinarily, Peter Dutton has lost his long-time outer Brisbane seat of Dickson, Redbridge has predicted.

But LNP senator for Queensland, James McGrath, says it's still not over.

"It's always been a tough seat," he said, reminding that: "He held it with less than 100 votes before the 2007 election."

"What I have learned in politics is wait until the numbers come in," he told the ABC.

— Gabrielle Katanasho
4 days ago
Christopher Pyne asks if it'll be the worst result in Coalition's history
With Labor set to win the election, former Liberal frontbencher Christopher Pyne says the main question now is whether "this will be the worst result for the Coalition since our party's inception".

Meanwhile, Opposition transport spokesperson Bridget McKenzie told 9News she believes US President Donald Trump has affected the election result.
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"I think that the Trump factor has absolutely had a role in the election.

"It was weaponised by one side when, I think, obviously, we [the Liberal Party] made very clear that the national interest, putting Australians first was how we were going to approach foreign affairs, including our relationship with the US."

— Yasmine Alwakal
4 days ago
Jacinta Price doesn't regret 'make Australia great again' pledge
Jacinta Price, the Coalition's government efficiency and Indigenous Australians spokesperson, told 7NEWS she stands by
her pledge to "make Australia great again".


"I don't regret loving my country ... Anything you say or do that is available for the Labor Party to weaponise against you, they will absolutely do that," she said.

She made the comment at a campaign rally alongside Opposition leader Peter Dutton last month. The rhetoric echoes United States President Donald Trump's well-known Make America Great Again slogan.

Price also called Anthony Albanese a "very deceitful prime minister" who has taken "the country for a ride".

— Yasmine Alwakal
4 days ago
'Hell of a swing': Dutton slipping in Dickson
Opposition leader Peter Dutton's 24-year grip on
the outer Brisbane seat of Dickson
is slipping.

A senior Labor source has told the ABC that pre-poll votes in the electorate — in addition to those cast today — are leaning red.

With 43 per cent of the vote counted, there appears to be a substantial swing to Labor's Ali France — who is challenging for the third time.
Data set.
Early results in the marginal seat of Dickson indicate a swing towards Labor's Ali France. Source: SBS
"That's a hell of a swing," Treasurer Jim Chalmers told the ABC.

"Ali France and her fantastic campaign team would be feeling encouraged, but I don't think anyone thinks we're home and hosed yet."
— Gabrielle Katanasho
4 days ago
Labor will win 2025 federal election and form government, analysts tell SBS News
Our Redbridge and Accent Research analysts are now in a position to call this election for Labor, as the only party that can form government. The question now is whether it is able to form majority government.


— Anna Henderson
4 days ago
Adam Bandt says party is feeling good
Greens leader Adam Bandt has told SBS News that the mood in his party is "really good" following positive poll indications earlier this morning:
4 days ago
The first projected seat to flip from Coalition to Labor
Redbridge is projecting Bass in Tasmania will flip from the Coalition to Labor.

Bridget Archer won the seat in 2022, but Jess Teesdale is projected to win the seat, which covers parts of Launceston.

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Labor is projected to win Bass

— Alex Britton
4 days ago
Labor majority 'possible' as early counts show big swings
Asked about a Labor majority, Accent Research principal Shaun Ratcliff told SBS News it was possible if the party wins seats such as Bass in Tasmania and Leichhardt in Queensland.

"We're seeing, in these early counts at least, a big swing to Labor in Leichhardt, [which has a] large Indigenous population," he said.

"It'll be really interesting to see if that swing continues as we get more count come through."

He also noted the big swing to Labor in Bass.

"If Labor win seats like Bass and Leichhardt, majority certainly looks possible."
4 days ago
Polls closed across the country
Polls in Western Australia closed at 8pm AEST, meaning voting across the country is now over.

The counting of votes for Western Australia's 16 electorates and 12 Senate seats will now start.

Political consultancy firm Redbridge Group has said there is now no path to majority government for the Coalition.
In the House of Representatives, it has so far predicted four for Labor, eight for the Coalition, one for an independent and one for Katter's Australian Party.

— Veronica Lenard
4 days ago
Independent vote looks like it's holding up
Redbridge Group director Simon Welsh says the independent vote at the moment looks like it's holding up.

"In fact, it looks like the independents may have Labor under a bit of pressure in [the ACT electorate of] Bean — [although it's] early days.

Welsh says
independent candidate Nicolette Boele
in the Liberal-held Sydney seat of Bradfield also has reason to be happy.

"I think the independents would be pretty comfortable with where they're sitting."

— Charis Chang
4 days ago
Lambie: Labor 'look like they want to run', Liberals 'do not'
While describing this year's election campaign as "lacklustre", Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie still says "Labor has... the bigger and smarter outfit".

"[They] have done a lot better. They look like they want to run," she told the ABC, adding the "Liberals do not".

"They have been slipping over the last few weeks and they are not coming out with your policy and your costings still towards the end, that is just ridiculous. What were they expecting?"

Labor also confirmed their costings towards the end of the campaign in 2022.

LNP Senator for Queensland, James McGrath, said he's not surprised by the comments.

"With all respect to Jacqui she is a political opponent of ours and she will not say nice things about the Liberal Party, she never says nice things about any Liberals," he told the ABC.

When asked to capture Peter Dutton's campaign in a single word, he responded: "Solid".

— Gabrielle Katanasho
4 days ago
Swing to Labor in Peter Dutton's seat
Redbridge Group director Simon Welsh says the numbers in
Opposition leader Peter Dutton's
seat of Dickson are concerning for the Coalition.

"We are seeing a swing to Labor in Dickson," Welsh says.

"[Dickson] sits
on a knife-edge margin
— it doesn't take much to sort of push that over the edge, and the numbers that we're looking at on the early count are probably problematic for him."

— Charis Chang
4 days ago
Chalmers: 'Early voting stronger for the Coalition'
As numbers look increasingly favourable for Labor, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he's bracing for a blue swing as pre-poll ballots are counted.

"Overrepresented in that group are older people, people who already own their own home and people who have had a history of voting for the LNP," he told the ABC.

"We are encouraged, obviously, by these numbers coming in, but we have the same caution we had at 6pm."

James McGrath, an LNP senator for Queensland, has called for "calm", saying: "The figures everyone is seeing now will be ameliorated somewhat in some instances by quite a lot by the actual figures that come in".

— Gabrielle Katanasho
4 days ago
Watch: The mood at the major parties' headquarters
SBS News' Naveen Razik and Sara Tomevska are at the Labor and Liberal parties' headquarters. Here's what they had to say about the mood on the ground as counting gets underway:
4 days ago
'Dire' vibes at Liberal HQ in Brisbane
The vibes at Liberal HQ in Brisbane are rather dire since Sky News declared the Coalition cannot form majority government. Still, the hopes of minority remain among the party faithful.

Opposition home affairs spokesperson James Paterson has told The Nine network's Karl Stefanovic: "Mate, it’s still too early to say."

"I think what you’ll see when pre-poll starts to get counted is it will look much better for us. This is still very early days. Let’s not make the same mistake we made in the Queensland state election."

Eyes are glued to results in Opposition leader Peter Dutton's own seat of Dickson, where there is a 5.1 per cent per cent swing towards Labor's Ali France, who leads by 3.4 per cent with just 6.1 per cent of the vote counted.

Dickson is Queensland's most marginal seat, held by Dutton on a 1.7 per cent margin. Labor have campaigned hard here, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese making it his first and last stop of the campaign.

— Sara Tomevska
4 days ago
Clive Palmer thinks election will result in a Labor majority
Clive Palmer, leader of the Trumpet of Patriots, has said he thinks Labor will be returned to power with a lower house majority.

"I think there could be a loss of Liberal seats, between 10 and 15 seats," the controversial businessman and former federal MP told 7NEWS.

He also categorised Peter Dutton's performance during the five-week election campaign as "the worst since federation as far as a conservative leader goes".

7NEWS described Palmer as the "great disruptor" during the campaign and said there was "absolutely no missing spam messages on your mobile devices", adding that some messages were "still coming through" to voters in Western Australia.

— Yasmine Alwakal
4 days ago
Anthony Albanese projected to retain Sydney seat
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is projected to retain his seat of Grayndler, according to political consultancy firm Redbridge Group.

Meanwhile, the seat previously held by Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney is projected to be a hold for Labor, with Ash Ambihaipahar forecast to win.

— Alex Britton
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