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Federal election results 2025 LIVE updates: Albanese gets back to business; Liberals search for new leader

Follow live as we bring you all the vote counting updates and developments around the nation as the PM takes first steps in his second term.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo

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Inside the campaigns that brought Peter Dutton undone.

Months before election day, the Coalition was soaring. In truth, a catastrophe was already unfolding

Peter Dutton was full of bravado at the final question time before the election, but hiding in plain sight was a campaign about to go off the rails.

  • Matthew Knott, Paul Sakkal, Natassia Chrysanthos and James Massola
Bradfield’s likely new independent MP Nicolette Boele.

The key Sydney seats: the winners and the one fight everyone is watching

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
Every seat that has changed hands in the election, and the seats in the balance.

Every seat that’s still too close to call – and those that changed hands

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

  • Millie Muroi
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after disembarking Marine One upon arrival on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Trump praises Albanese, has ‘no idea’ who his opponent was in Australian election

The US president ducked a question on whether he was partly responsible for the Coalition’s electoral rout in Australia on Saturday night.

  • Michael Koziol
The Sydney Morning Herald pick: Anthony Albanese.

‘Kind’ Albanese seeks to reshape Australia in his image

Some will say Donald Trump muddied this election, but it is perhaps more accurate to say he had a clarifying effect, reminding us of what was at stake.

  • Sean Kelly
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flanked by son Nathan and fiancee Jodie Haydon on election night.

Forget cost of living. Australians showed there’s another thing they care about

The Coalition and minor parties neglected the golden rule of Australian politics.

  • The Age's View
Had the Coalition succeeded in getting Labor sacked, Labor would rightly have blamed the Reserve Bank’s tardiness in cutting interest rates for that sacking, and its side of politics would have gone for at least a decade seeing the central bank as the enemy.

Dutton’s election campaign rout lets RBA off the hook

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock must be breathing a quiet sigh of relief now the Albanese government has been triumphantly returned to office.

  • Ross Gittins
Peter Dutton attempted to woo Chinese Australian voters, such as at this campaign stop at the Imperial Chinese Restaurant in Melbourne, but they swung against him in some key booths.

The truth in the booths: The results that reveal the swings behind Labor’s big win

In almost every demographic and ethnic group, Peter Dutton lost voters. He had lost his own seat before polling even started on Saturday.

  • Shane Wright
Albanese read the mood of the Australian electorate.

‘Never more powerful than he is now’: Albanese faces tough calls on his new frontbench

Labor figures played down the prospect of sweeping changes to cabinet, but they expect more than a dozen new MPs to change the factional structure that decides the ministry.

  • David Crowe and James Massola

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