The Liberal-National government has been tossed into opposition after almost a decade and after 26-years in politics, Labor's Anthony Albanese is set to be sworn in as Prime Minister on Monday.
There is a lot going on.
And so, here we are, the 2022 Federal Election hangover, that will last into the week.
Outgoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison went to his local Pentecostal Church on Sunday where he spoke for the last time as PM.
He cried while reading the Bible verse Habakkuk 3:17 from his phone:
"Even if the fig tree does not blossom and there is no fruit on the vines, if the yield of the olive fails and if the fields produce no food, even if the flock disappears from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls, yet I will triumph in the Lord. I will rejoice in the God of my salvation,” Morrison read.
"May God bless Australia. May God bless our community. And may God continue to show his favour on this wonderful church family," he said, as he left the stage.
Meanwhile in Marrickville, the incoming 31st PM Anthony Albanese, with his partner Jodie Haydon, took his dog for a walk.
Here's the wash up from one of the most extraordinary elections Australia has seen in decades.
Labor is on track to win a majority government
The ALP is set to lead in its own right, meaning Albanese and co won't have to negotiate like Julia Gillard did back in 2010 to form government as Labor is on track to win 76 seats (the number of seats you need to claim the biscuits).
What will happen on Monday
Albanese will be sworn in as Prime Minister at Government House in Canberra along with new foreign affairs Minister Penny Wong, defence minister Richard Marles, treasurer Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher as finance minister.
This squad will have "temporary control" of every government portfolio until Albanese finalises the makeup of the new cabinet because Albanese and Wong have to head to Tokyo this week to represent us at the Quad meeting - an important security chat between allies like Japan and the US.
Albanese has promised unity
"I want to represent all Australians. I want to unite the country. There's been a lot of division in recent times. It's one of my criticisms of the current Government," the PM elect said.
"I want to bring people together and regardless of how people vote in our great democracy, it's good that people express their views at the ballot box."
He'll also bring together the unions and business at a productivity love in which will be organised shortly.
Support for the "big dogs" has gone
The ALP's primary vote has actually gone backwards to 32.8% as it pulled in fewer than a third of the votes. It's a mandate to form government, a weak one however as support for the major parties - both Labor and Liberal - is now low, historically low.
About a quarter of Australians voted for a minor party in the 2019 election (24.7% in the House of Representatives).
This time, it’s predicted more than 33% of the electorate voted for minority parties or independents. Such votes in the inner city seats in particular are changing the political equation for the major parties, which look like only gaining two-thirds of the overall vote.
At previous elections they’ve had more than 80% of the vote.
The Greens will potentially secure four House of Reps seats and probably about 12 senators - meaning the ALP will have to consult with them quite a bit.
There will also be eight independents taking their seats in the House.
It's was a good weekend to be a white, wealthy woman
There will be an influx of women to the 47th parliament of Australia with 95 MPs and Senators.
The Liberals have lost a lot of skin. About 22 layers, which is the same amount of Lib MPs who won't be returning to Canberra.
Many of the most high-profile pollies were taken out at the polls by the popular teal independents - a cohort of well-educated and successful women hailing from some of the country's wealthiest suburbs.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg - a Jewish man - has lost his seat of Kooyong (the seat of Liberal party founder Robert Menzies) and two gay men in Tim Wilson of Goldstein and Trent Zimmerman in North Sydney have been booted out of politics.
Six female conservative MPs also lost their seats.
Labor has more than double the number of women MPs than the coalition now, 53 compared to 24.
The crossbench will be huge. About 20 women will move into the House of Representatives and the Greens have about 8 women joining their parliamentary ranks.
How did UAP go after all those bright yellow ads?
The United Australia Party, also known as Clive Palmer's project, received less than 6% of the Senate vote in his home state of Queensland.
The party leader - the bloke they said would be "the next Prime Minister of Australia"- Craig Kelly lost his NSW seat of Hughes.
Palmer spent about $100m (again) which got him fewer votes than the Legalise Cannabis party, which polled about 6.72%.
The UAP appears to have helped Labor win in WA.
The ALP snatched four seats from the Libs in WA off a campaign thats message was all about how Morrison helped support Palmer's high court challenge to tear down WA's hard border during Covid.
Where did we see a green wave?
Queensland.
Labor MP in Griffith Terri Butler lost the her seat, previously occupied by former PM Kevin Rudd, to Greenie Max Chandler-Mather and the seat of Ryan may turn Green thanks to Elizabeth Watson-Brown. There were no independent candidates running in those three areas.
The most surprising result was by Penny Allman-Payne. A senate hopeful who campaigned in coal country in Gladstone and is now heading to Canberra.
We'll get a new Indigenous Affairs Minister
Linda Burney is set to be the new indigenous affairs minister who has promised, exclusively to The Oz, an Indigenous Voice to the parliament in the first term of the new Albanese Labor government.
She was the first Aboriginal women elected to the House of Reps and she'll be the first Aboriginal woman to hold the portfolio.
Burney will take over from Liberal MP Ken Wyatt who has conceded defeat in the seat of Hasluck in WA to Labor's Tania Lawrence, who leads the count by 8226 votes.
Wyatt has been in parliament for more than a decade and was the first Aboriginal member of the House of Representatives.
On Sunday, while reflecting on his loss, Wyatt revealed he would have voted to put the voice in the constitution.
“I would support the right set of words,” Mr Wyatt said.
Wyatt served in the portfolio for three years and broke hearts in 2019 when he confirmed the Morrison government would not hold a referendum on an Indigenous voice.
However there is a new Indigenous MP incoming for the Libs called Jacinta Price from the Northern Territory.
And she is a firebrand.
Price is a Warlpiri-Celtic woman and former deputy mayor of Alice Springs and said Australians had been "taken for a ride" by The Greens and others on the left side of politics.
"And they're going to soon find out what bed they have made for themselves," Price said.
On Sunday night Price labelled Labor's wish for an Indigenous voice to parliament as a "symbolic gesture" that will do little in solving rural Indigenous community issues.
She said Labor's proposals so far lack support for remote communities doing it tough.
"Where do they say they're going to reduce domestic violent in remote communities, where do they say they're going to reduce child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities (and) provide jobs," Senator Price said.
"Where does any of this say it's going to accomplish any of these sort of things and bring Indigenous people from remote communities into the modern world...when are they going to create the same opportunities for those people that are out of sight and out of mind?"
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