Scott Morrison says his newly elected team is well positioned to make further incursions into Labor heartland over the next three years and put the opposition to the sword at the following election.
As Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese visited Queensland, now a wasteland for federal Labor, and declared all polices taken to the election had lapsed, Mr Morrison used his first address to his buoyant MPs to urge them to consolidate on the shock victory of May 18.
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