Lesley Yeomans: Australian Prime Minister on Anthony Albanese's election win

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been re-elected for a second term after Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton. 

Dutton not only failed to unseat Albanese, but he also lost his seat of Dickson in Brisbane, making him the first federal opposition leader to ever do so. 

Australian Correspondent Lesley Yeomans talks to Ryan Bridge about Saturday's election. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Elbow's done it, first Labor prime minister since Hawk,
to go back.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
To back today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values,
for fairness, aspiration and opportunity for.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
All, and he gets a bigger majority, which means that
you gave Paul, who told you about on Friday, was
pretty much on the money. The trivia on the opposition
benches grim. No federal opposition leader has lost their electric
seat during and Australian election general election until Dutton lost
his at the weekend. Le's the Yeomans Australia correspondent, Good.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Morning, Good morning Ryan.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's never one thing that loses you an election or
wins it was it uncertainty about Trump, was dust and
crap on the campaign trail. I mean, I don't get
the sense that this was we love Elbow.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
No?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
And you're right, there wasn't one thing. The Liberals were
pretty crap on the campaign trail, putting it bluntly. Look,
there's never ever really one thing that the whole electorate,
the whole voting population votes for a reason. The Liberals

(01:18):
just had a really bad campaign and people didn't like
Peter Dutton as a possible Prime minister, and the fact
that he lost his seat like John Howard did. John
Howard lost his seat back in and was at keven
O seven two thousand and seven, wasn't it. John Howard
lost his seat. Tony Abbott lost his seat eventually, So

(01:40):
now Dutton's lost his and he's lost it to a
woman by the name of Ali France, and it was
her third time going up against him in his seat Queensland,
Seed of Dixon. She was just just kept eating away
at his small majority and got there in the end.
It's not just though every state went towards labor. And

(02:07):
one of the comments on Saturday night was that Victoria
is generally a very labor state. It's one of the
most progressive states in the country and Victoria was lagging
behind because it wasn't as far ahead showing the swing
to labor as everyone else it was. It was sort
of like very very funny to watch, to be honest.

(02:29):
But now in Victoria, even labor there has It's gone
from no liberal MPs in city at all in any
of the metropolitan areas. Same with South Australia. In Tasmania
they had two liberal MPs down there. They lost both
of those. So all of Tasmania is now labor except

(02:51):
for one seat, and that's in Hobart where there is
an independent who was a long standing independent in Hobart.
Every state has gone to labor and it's been just
a pretty amazing sort of thing. You know, when some
of the polls were saying that there was a possibility
of a labor minority government or even a liberal win,

(03:12):
or it just went hold my beer, not now going,
We're going all the way.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Great, great analysis of it. Leslie really appreciate that. This morning,
Leslie omens our Australia correspondent.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
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