Why voters are waiting longer for election results
Analysis of election figures shows the share of the two-candidate-preferred voted counted by midnight on election day has fallen over the past six election.
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Libs claim Goldstein, Kooyong still close
Kooyong has come down to just 365 votes, while Goldstein has reverted to blue after three years in teal.
PM lashes Greens as Bandt ousted, Monique Ryan’s lead cut
Anthony Albanese has slammed an ousted Green MP after the party’s leader lost his seat; Liberal Amelia Hamer has made further cuts to Ryan’s lead in Kooyong, while Labor claims another WA win.
Seize the moment for Indigenous Australians, voice architect tells PM
Marcia Langton says Anthony Albanese must use his once-in-a-generation election win to be courageous in Indigenous policy to address extreme disadvantage.
Dutton’s focus on mortgage belt fell flat
Analysis shows there was no statistically significant correlation between the swing in a seat and the share of its households that lived in a mortgaged home.
Chinese ancestry-heavy aspirational seats break for Labor
Labor continues to be most attractive to cosmopolitan, high-migration, high-education voters whereas its message is not cutting through as much elsewhere.
Labor ministers survive Muslim threat
A pro-Palestine political wave that had threatened to topple Labor in inner-city seats failed to materialise, with two ministers romping home.
Jewish leaders declare Greens suffered ‘electoral punishment’
Jewish groups have congratulated Labor on its win and welcomed the return of Jewish MPs, while celebrating rejection of the Greens and their ‘extreme and anti-Israel agenda’.
Buoyant unions to pressure Labor for increase in workers’ rights
Unions will press the Albanese government for policy action to lift workers’ living standards as they identified Peter Dutton’s unpopularity with voters and disastrous working from home policy backflip as key factors in the Coalition’s defeat.
Bandt in fight to hold seat in nightmare evening for Greens
The Greens have already lost two prized seats in Brisbane with Max Chandler-Mather and Stephen Bates losing out to Labor.
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