Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is returning to the top job, after a decisive election win that was well predicted.
He's the country's first leader to win back-to-back elections since John Howard in 2004, pushing his party back into office - this time with an even larger majority.
Meanwhile, the night proved a big loss for opposition leader Peter Dutton - after he lost his seat of Dickson in Queensland and conceded defeat.
Australian correspondent Murray Olds says this was an 'epic' win for Labor - and a significant loss for the opposition.
"Unless Labor really stuffs things up, it's going to have another election win in three years time, because the Liberals - the conservative right of Australian politics - is in complete disarray this morning."
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Edb a victory for Anthony Albanesi and his Labor Party
in the Australian election. It was a decisive win, with
Labor claiming an even larger majority. The wind makes Albanesi
the first Prime minister to win back to back elections
since John Howard in twenty and twenty two thousand and four.
Here is Anthony Albanesi last night.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values in
this time of global uncertainty, Australians have chosen optimism and determination.
Australians have chosen to face global challenges the Australian way,
(00:56):
looking after each other while building for the future.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
A Australian correspondent Murray Olds joins me, now, good.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Morning, Francesca, good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He was pretty emotional at the beginning of that speech,
wasn't he?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Oh he was, he was, But pardon me. When you
look at Albaneze's career, he's always warn his heart on
his sleeve. I mean, as a young university student he said,
I'm here to fight trotskies. I'm here to fight Tories,
I should say. And you know he was raised by
his mum in a state house in Sydney, very very
(01:33):
close to his mother, and he's always demonstrated that. And
you compare that to Peter Dutton. Both leaders last night
gave very gracious acknowledgment of each other, but you cannot
get away from the fact. And you mentioned John how
the last leader to went back to back elections on
the Labour side, it's Bob Hawk and you're going back
(01:53):
almost two generations. So this is an epic win for Labor.
And such is the scale of the defeat, you'd have
to look over the next three years and think, unless
Labor really stuffs things up, it's going to have another
election win in three years time. Because the Liberals, whatever
the Liberals stand for, the conservative right of Australian politics,
(02:14):
is a complete disarray. This morning they are absolute shot ducks.
I'm looking at the returns that we have now because
counting is resuming today. Later went into this election Francesca
with a one seat majority. Now looking this morning, they've
won eighty five seats. The Liberal National Party's won thirty six.
(02:35):
The Greens have lost maybe four seats, independents are going
to put on some seats. We've still got about twenty
in doubt. So the Liberal National Party coalition, the Concert
and so called Conservatives are going to make up some
of that ground. But Heaven's above, this is a shattering loss.
Peter Dutton lost his own seat, the Liberal leader. It's
an echo of what happened in Canada Donald Trump. I
(02:57):
know you're going to be talking about him, but that
did play a big part over here as well.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay, first of all, what do you put it down
to such a decide when for labor, Well, there.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Was a number of things. I mean, you've got in
the first year of the Labor government, the Opposition completely
dominated Labor under Peter Dutton. That was the Voice Referendum,
where Labour set out to enshrine in the Australian Constitution
a voice for Indigenous Australians that was shot down sixty
(03:30):
percent to forty percent, driven by the coalition. And you
know what I think then the opposition thought we've got
Labor on toast. What a soft bunch we've got across
the political aisle from us. Albanezi really lost as Mojo
he invested so much Francesca in getting that indigenous support
across the country and he was comprehensively defeated, So I
(03:54):
think maybe there's a bit of complacency there. And to
be honest, hand on heart, they were bloody lazy. There
was no policy development, any suggestion inside the Liberal National
Coalition that maybe the leader was wrong. Well, those people
were just excluded. They were shut out, sent to purgatory.
And the other thing is the personalities of the two leaders.
(04:15):
I'll give you an example. The woman who's won Peter
Peter Dutton seat of Dixon and Brisbane is a woman
who for a third time lucky. Her name is Ali Franz.
Ali Franz lost a leg in a car park of
Brisbane Shoppings at a car park when an eighty eight
year old fellow rammed her by accident with his car.
(04:36):
She'd just managed to shove her son out of the
way in his ram so she's getting around on one
leg and Peter Dutton's once said about her she's using
her disability as a reason not to live in the electorate.
And only a year or so after she lost the leg,
she lost her eldest son to leukemia. He wasn't even twenty,
(04:56):
so This is a woman who has just fronted up
time and time and time again. Peter Dutton disparages her.
Peter Dutton went out it was way to say, for example,
you know, we don't need welcomes to country from indigenous Australians.
In fact, most people like it. Most people acknowledge the
fact that Indigenous Australians has been here for sixty five
thousand years. Not under Peter Dutton. He just disparages that
(05:19):
as well. And every policy the Liberal Party came out
with was pinched from labor except the ones that Dutton
backflipped on, for example, working from home. Who does he
think works from home? A lot of women work from home.
So the only people that if you look at these
figures this morning, the only people who voted for Dutton
and their labor like coalition on the right were boomers.
(05:40):
Young people wouldn't have voted for them. I'll be fascinated
to see these figures. Not many young people would voted
for them, not many women would have voted for them.
This is a catastrophic defeat for the right and how
you know where they go from here? And the other
thing to think about too, the next generation of Liberal
leaders they've been decimated this morning at one, two, three, four,
At least four I can think of, and as I say,
(06:01):
about twenty seats still to be counted, at least four
potential leaders have gone. You have to be in the
Lower House to get to become a Liberal leader. So
at least four of the next generations have gone. That's
the scale of this defeat.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Is this all on Dutton or are there other factors
in this loss for the Liberals? Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Look, a lot of it's down to the leader, of course,
because he sets the tone right. But behind me he
had the most vacuous and competent I mean, you get
more animation from those bloody stone heads on Easter Island
they sit there behind Dutton. They're just lazy. There was
no work done on alternative policy. Everything Labor proposed at
(06:44):
this election, the Liberal plays that, oh, you know, yes,
we're going to back that, except the budget that they
had to be brought down because of course cyclone Elfred
came along and ruined Albaneze's plans to go a bit earlier.
So in the budget Labor says we're going to give
people the tax cut. The opposition thought it was a
great idea, to say no, no, no, we're going to
(07:05):
oppose that tax cut. I mean, who the hell goes
into an election opposing a tax cut for everybody? It
just makes no sense and it points to their electoral stupidity,
the naivety. I mean, on the Labour side, you've got
some bloody hard heads in there who were doing the
hard work. A lot of it's unpopular, and you know,
these are very very troubled times and Labor has not
(07:27):
got everything right. Far from it, There's been some disaster.
But at the end of all the infighting and so on,
Labour's formed a big, big majority overnight. I guess we're
not going to see the exact scale of that Francesco
until maybe early this coming week. But right now this morning,
let me just repeat, they went in with one seat
(07:47):
majority in the one hundred and fifty seat parliament. This
morning you're sitting on eighty five eighty six, the Liberal
National Party coalition on thirty six. That's fifty seats. The difference.
The Greens have been shattered up in Queensland and the
Independents are going to get a scattering. More So, the
scale of this is you cannot overstate the significant of
this Victory.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Maray, you mentioned that you know you've lost a few
potentials when it comes to the leadership for the Liberals,
and presuming Dutton's done, who is lining up to take
his job.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
There's a young fellow from Western Australia, Andrew Hasty. He
is the shadow Defense Minister. He's not yet fifty. He
spent a lot of time serving in the Special Air Service,
the SAS. He was a captain of the SAS super
well regarded forty six or forty seven. I think he
is maybe he could. He might be considered a little young.
(08:40):
You've got someone called Dan Tian. He's a Victorian MP.
He was a Trade minister. He's been around for a
long long time, but he's about as exciting as a
cigar store Indian. You've got Susan Leed who holds a
country seat for the Liberal Party. I reckon a decent
puffer wind would blow her away. She just sounds she's
had nothing to say. And the other one is Angus Taylor. Now,
(09:01):
if you could find a more wooden a more I
don't think you could find a more wooden shadow treasure
of an Angus Dutton. He just opened his mouth to
change feet it was just an embarrassment to watch it.
And if this is the best that I've got, honest
to god, you haven't look at this guy on television.
He bumbles and he's a Rhodes scholar. You must have
bumped his head on the car door on the way
into the Buddy election room. He is just hopeless. And
(09:24):
if this is the quality of their potential leaders, I mean,
out of that lot, you'd have to go with Andrew Hasty.
But all these grand poobas and the Liberal Party, Oh no,
he's far too young, far too young. Give it to
someone we know well. But gee, that's work well, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh Murray, look as always, thank you so much for
your time this morning, very much appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudken, listen
live to News Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Edb a victory for Anthony Albanesi and his Labor Party
in the Australian election. It was a decisive win, with
Labor claiming an even larger majority. The wind makes Albanesi
the first Prime minister to win back to back elections
since John Howard in twenty and twenty two thousand and four.
Here is Anthony Albanesi last night.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values in
this time of global uncertainty, Australians have chosen optimism and determination.
Australians have chosen to face global challenges the Australian way,
(00:56):
looking after each other while building for the future.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
A Australian correspondent Murray Olds joins me, now, good.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Morning, Francesca, good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He was pretty emotional at the beginning of that speech,
wasn't he?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Oh he was, he was, But pardon me. When you
look at Albaneze's career, he's always warn his heart on
his sleeve. I mean, as a young university student he said,
I'm here to fight trotskies. I'm here to fight Tories,
I should say. And you know he was raised by
his mum in a state house in Sydney, very very
(01:33):
close to his mother, and he's always demonstrated that. And
you compare that to Peter Dutton. Both leaders last night
gave very gracious acknowledgment of each other, but you cannot
get away from the fact. And you mentioned John how
the last leader to went back to back elections on
the Labour side, it's Bob Hawk and you're going back
(01:53):
almost two generations. So this is an epic win for Labor.
And such is the scale of the defeat, you'd have
to look over the next three years and think, unless
Labor really stuffs things up, it's going to have another
election win in three years time. Because the Liberals, whatever
the Liberals stand for, the conservative right of Australian politics,
(02:14):
is a complete disarray. This morning they are absolute shot ducks.
I'm looking at the returns that we have now because
counting is resuming today. Later went into this election Francesca
with a one seat majority. Now looking this morning, they've
won eighty five seats. The Liberal National Party's won thirty six.
(02:35):
The Greens have lost maybe four seats, independents are going
to put on some seats. We've still got about twenty
in doubt. So the Liberal National Party coalition, the Concert
and so called Conservatives are going to make up some
of that ground. But Heaven's above, this is a shattering loss.
Peter Dutton lost his own seat, the Liberal leader. It's
an echo of what happened in Canada Donald Trump. I
(02:57):
know you're going to be talking about him, but that
did play a big part over here as well.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay, first of all, what do you put it down
to such a decide when for labor, Well, there.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Was a number of things. I mean, you've got in
the first year of the Labor government, the Opposition completely
dominated Labor under Peter Dutton. That was the Voice Referendum,
where Labour set out to enshrine in the Australian Constitution
a voice for Indigenous Australians that was shot down sixty
(03:30):
percent to forty percent, driven by the coalition. And you
know what I think then the opposition thought we've got
Labor on toast. What a soft bunch we've got across
the political aisle from us. Albanezi really lost as Mojo
he invested so much Francesca in getting that indigenous support
across the country and he was comprehensively defeated, So I
(03:54):
think maybe there's a bit of complacency there. And to
be honest, hand on heart, they were bloody lazy. There
was no policy development, any suggestion inside the Liberal National
Coalition that maybe the leader was wrong. Well, those people
were just excluded. They were shut out, sent to purgatory.
And the other thing is the personalities of the two leaders.
(04:15):
I'll give you an example. The woman who's won Peter
Peter Dutton seat of Dixon and Brisbane is a woman
who for a third time lucky. Her name is Ali Franz.
Ali Franz lost a leg in a car park of
Brisbane Shoppings at a car park when an eighty eight
year old fellow rammed her by accident with his car.
(04:36):
She'd just managed to shove her son out of the
way in his ram so she's getting around on one
leg and Peter Dutton's once said about her she's using
her disability as a reason not to live in the electorate.
And only a year or so after she lost the leg,
she lost her eldest son to leukemia. He wasn't even twenty,
(04:56):
so This is a woman who has just fronted up
time and time and time again. Peter Dutton disparages her.
Peter Dutton went out it was way to say, for example,
you know, we don't need welcomes to country from indigenous Australians.
In fact, most people like it. Most people acknowledge the
fact that Indigenous Australians has been here for sixty five
thousand years. Not under Peter Dutton. He just disparages that
(05:19):
as well. And every policy the Liberal Party came out
with was pinched from labor except the ones that Dutton
backflipped on, for example, working from home. Who does he
think works from home? A lot of women work from home.
So the only people that if you look at these
figures this morning, the only people who voted for Dutton
and their labor like coalition on the right were boomers.
(05:40):
Young people wouldn't have voted for them. I'll be fascinated
to see these figures. Not many young people would voted
for them, not many women would have voted for them.
This is a catastrophic defeat for the right and how
you know where they go from here? And the other
thing to think about too, the next generation of Liberal
leaders they've been decimated this morning at one, two, three, four,
At least four I can think of, and as I say,
(06:01):
about twenty seats still to be counted, at least four
potential leaders have gone. You have to be in the
Lower House to get to become a Liberal leader. So
at least four of the next generations have gone. That's
the scale of this defeat.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Is this all on Dutton or are there other factors
in this loss for the Liberals? Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Look, a lot of it's down to the leader, of course,
because he sets the tone right. But behind me he
had the most vacuous and competent I mean, you get
more animation from those bloody stone heads on Easter Island
they sit there behind Dutton. They're just lazy. There was
no work done on alternative policy. Everything Labor proposed at
(06:44):
this election, the Liberal plays that, oh, you know, yes,
we're going to back that, except the budget that they
had to be brought down because of course cyclone Elfred
came along and ruined Albaneze's plans to go a bit earlier.
So in the budget Labor says we're going to give
people the tax cut. The opposition thought it was a
great idea, to say no, no, no, we're going to
(07:05):
oppose that tax cut. I mean, who the hell goes
into an election opposing a tax cut for everybody? It
just makes no sense and it points to their electoral stupidity,
the naivety. I mean, on the Labour side, you've got
some bloody hard heads in there who were doing the
hard work. A lot of it's unpopular, and you know,
these are very very troubled times and Labor has not
(07:27):
got everything right. Far from it, There's been some disaster.
But at the end of all the infighting and so on,
Labour's formed a big, big majority overnight. I guess we're
not going to see the exact scale of that Francesco
until maybe early this coming week. But right now this morning,
let me just repeat, they went in with one seat
(07:47):
majority in the one hundred and fifty seat parliament. This
morning you're sitting on eighty five eighty six, the Liberal
National Party coalition on thirty six. That's fifty seats. The difference.
The Greens have been shattered up in Queensland and the
Independents are going to get a scattering. More So, the
scale of this is you cannot overstate the significant of
this Victory.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Maray, you mentioned that you know you've lost a few
potentials when it comes to the leadership for the Liberals,
and presuming Dutton's done, who is lining up to take
his job.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
There's a young fellow from Western Australia, Andrew Hasty. He
is the shadow Defense Minister. He's not yet fifty. He
spent a lot of time serving in the Special Air Service,
the SAS. He was a captain of the SAS super
well regarded forty six or forty seven. I think he
is maybe he could. He might be considered a little young.
(08:40):
You've got someone called Dan Tian. He's a Victorian MP.
He was a Trade minister. He's been around for a
long long time, but he's about as exciting as a
cigar store Indian. You've got Susan Leed who holds a
country seat for the Liberal Party. I reckon a decent
puffer wind would blow her away. She just sounds she's
had nothing to say. And the other one is Angus Taylor. Now,
(09:01):
if you could find a more wooden a more I
don't think you could find a more wooden shadow treasure
of an Angus Dutton. He just opened his mouth to
change feet it was just an embarrassment to watch it.
And if this is the best that I've got, honest
to god, you haven't look at this guy on television.
He bumbles and he's a Rhodes scholar. You must have
bumped his head on the car door on the way
into the Buddy election room. He is just hopeless. And
(09:24):
if this is the quality of their potential leaders, I mean,
out of that lot, you'd have to go with Andrew Hasty.
But all these grand poobas and the Liberal Party, Oh no,
he's far too young, far too young. Give it to
someone we know well. But gee, that's work well, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh Murray, look as always, thank you so much for
your time this morning, very much appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudken, listen
live to News Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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