Australian election

In early counting, both major parties have struggled in various seats, but there appears to be strong support for independents, the Greens and other minor ...

Zali Steggall has retained the seat of Warringah on Sydney’s northern beaches. The Greens look to have had one of their best results. The Guardian has called this seat for Spender. In the seat of Brisbane, LNP MP Trevor Evans appears to have lost support, with Labor and the Greens in contention to take the seat. Labor looks set to win Higgins in Melbourne and Robertson in NSW from the Liberal party. In North Sydney, independent Kylea Tink looks a strong chance to take the seat from Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman.

Partial results showed Morrison's Liberal-National coalition had been punished by voters in Western Australia and affluent urban seats in particular.

Final results could take time as counting of a record number of postal votes is completed. “Tonight, I have spoken to the Leader of the Opposition and the incoming Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. And I’ve congratulated him on his election victory this evening,” Morrison said, stepping down as leader of his party. Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded defeat after an election on Saturday and the opposition Labor Party was set to end almost a decade of conservative rule, possibly with the support of pro-environment independents.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has conceded defeat in a national election, saying that while vote counting is incomplete, the opposition Labor ...

I think people have had enough of division, what they want is to come together as a nation, and I intend to lead that." Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 48 per cent of Australia's 17 million electors voted early or applied to vote by mail. Final results could take time as counting of a record number of mail-in votes is completed. "I want to unite the country," Albanese told reporters as he left his home late on Saturday night to attend a Labor Party celebration in Sydney. Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded defeat Saturday after a federal election in Australia, and the opposition Labor Party was set to end almost a decade of conservative rule, possibly with the support of pro-environment independents. "Tonight, I have spoken to the leader of the opposition and the incoming prime minister, Anthony Albanese. And I've congratulated him on his election victory this evening," Morrison told supporters.

Labor leader Anthony Albanese, who grew up the son of a single mother on a Sydney public housing estate, will be the country's next prime minister.

Speaking at his own muted victory event, Mr. Dutton said the party had “suffered a terrible day today.” He will now bear the brunt of a furious Liberal Party, which had been in government since 2013. “Teal wave” candidates, named for their campaign colour, bet that voters were in fact invested in this issue and have been proven correct, picking up a number of former Liberal seats. I am humbled by this victory and I’m honoured to be given the opportunity to serve as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia.” One of Mr. Albanese’s first duties as prime minister will be to join the leaders of the United States, India and Japan in Tokyo on Tuesday for a meeting of the Quad, the increasingly important alliance which some have said has the potential to become an “Asian NATO” and an important counterbalance to China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific. “We live in a wonderful country and we have many challenges ahead as a country,” he added.

Australia's center-left opposition party toppled the conservative government after almost a decade in power, and Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese in ...

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SYDNEY — Voting in Australia's general election ended on Saturday with early returns showing both Prime Minister Scott Morrison's conservative coalition ...

“I’ve put us in a position where at worst we’re competitive today. “Today, Australians are making a big choice about their future,” Morrison told reporters outside a voting center. Article content

Anthony Albanese's Labor party defeats the ruling Coalition, but may lack the numbers to form majority government.

“I want to find that common ground where together we can plant our dreams. Albanese, who made much of his upbringing as the child of a single mother in Sydney public housing throughout the campaign, is a party stalwart from Labor’s left faction, although far from a radical firebrand. “I know about the upheaval that’s taking place in our nation. The biggest surprise of the night was the surge in support for the Greens. By Saturday evening, the party – which has struggled to win more than the one seat it first picked up more than a decade ago – was on track to win as many as three more, all in progressive areas of Brisbane. It also looked likely to increase its strength in the upper house, the Senate, which may also have a rare progressive majority composed of Labor, the Greens and the former Australian rugby union captain and environmental activist David Pocock, who was on course to win one of the two Senate seats in the Australian Capital Territory. Early results indicated the teal independent movement could have taken as many as five seats from the government, cutting a swathe through the moderate faction of the Liberal party. While the Liberal-National coalition lost seats to Labor, independents and Greens, the Labor opposition failed to sweep to power in its own right, winning just 31.8% of the primary vote when counting stopped for the night at midnight on Saturday. It was not apparent it could win a majority of seats to be able to claim victory – which would have been its first since 2007.

While Australians voice concern about inflation and climate change, the race has focused on the conduct of the incumbent conservative prime minister.

An energetic campaigner who has presented himself as the leader for “quiet Australians” who want a steady hand on the economic tiller, he had a reputation for being a moderate earlier in his career. But he found his footing during a pair of debates during which he focused on wage increases and other traditional Labor issues while standing up to the more combative prime minister. The country has compulsory voting and preferential voting, letting people rank their choices, and a large swath of the electorate decides at the last second. With few major policy differences or dramatic proposals, the election has come to be seen as a referendum on Mr. Morrison’s conduct and performance in office. His ham-handed explanation during a radio interview — “I don’t hold a hose, mate” — became emblematic of what many have criticized as his government’s inadequate response and reluctance to take climate change seriously as a factor in the disaster. He emerged in the broader national consciousness in 2013 as immigration minister, when he took a hard-line approach to enforcing Australia’s “Stop the Boats” policy, aimed at preventing asylum seekers from reaching the country’s shores. It’s a choice between a government you know and a Labor opposition that you don’t,” he said in April as he called the election. After nearly four years at the helm, Mr. Morrison’s pitch to voters this time around is that he and his conservative coalition are the known quantities in a world full of economic and geopolitical uncertainty. But the government’s delays in procuring vaccines and Mr. Morrison’s remarks that securing jabs was “not a race,” ate away at what confidence had been restored. But his tenure hasn’t always been smooth, with moments that have tested the Australian public’s faith in his leadership and scandals that rocked his administration. He got his start through student politics at the University of Sydney, after which he worked for Labor politicians and in party roles. Wages have been slow to rise even with strong demand for workers and the unemployment rate dipping to the lowest rate in decades.