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Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and the PM’s fiancee Jodie Haydon joined him at Bar Italia, a cafe Albanese used to visit with his late mother when he was growing up. The PM said he thought of her on Saturday night and that she’d be very proud.

Federal election results 2025 LIVE updates: Albanese says he feels for Dutton as Ali France hails win ‘that took my breath away’

Follow our live coverage of the aftermath of Labor’s landslide victory at the federal election.

  • Nick Newling and Millie Muroi

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Where does ‘new Albo’ sit in Labor’s pantheon of heroes today?

Amid Labor’s ecstatic celebrations, the inevitable question arose. Is Albo the new Hawkie? The answer is simpler: Albo is the new Albo.

  • Tony Wright

The four key contenders to replace Dutton as Liberal leader

The battle for the Liberal leadership will be fought between regional and outer metropolitan areas after the once-powerful moderate faction was all but wiped out.

  • Paul Sakkal

Every seat that changed hands – and those that are still in doubt

Here’s everything you need to know about the seats changing hands across the country – including more than a dozen for Labor.

  • Millie Muroi
Albanese and Dutton speeeches.

‘Unity came at an incredible cost’: Inside Labor’s ‘landslide’ and disaster for Dutton

Peter Dutton kept the party together after the last election through a deliberately conservative approach. And, as chief political correspondent David Crowe says, it cost them.

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Dutton was never a Trump clone. But he fell for the trap of MAGA-style politics

This election was shaped by two forces – Cyclone Alfred and Donald Trump – and neither spared the Liberal Party.

  • Matthew Knott
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Albanese and Dutton have ended their campaigning on election day.

Federal election results 2025 as it happened: PM delivers victory speech as Labor wins government; Dutton concedes, projected to lose his own seat

Follow along as Australia decides who will lead the country for the next three years.

  • Josefine Ganko, Olivia Ireland, Nick Newling and Angus Delaney
Perhaps politicians believe that their job is to give away prizes in a nationwide Sale of the Century.

This Sale Of The Century election will leave us all out of pocket

Our politicians are like game show hosts, flinging money at the electorate. But the bills will fall due.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
In the seat of Bennelong, the contest is down to the wire

The key Sydney seats: What happened, and who are the winners?

There are 11 seats in Sydney and NSW that are critical – or simply fascinating to observe – in this election. Here’s how Australians voted in each one.

  • Staff reporters
Peter Dutton has lost the election, and his seat - while Labor increased its majority significantly.

This has exposed the true depth of the Liberals’ crisis – and all but exiled them from the cities

The Liberal Party has been reduced to a right-wing populist party. Peter Dutton gave a gracious concession speech. But his Coalition did not suffer an honourable failure.

  • Peter Hartcher

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