Laura Jayes: Sky News Correspondent on Anthony Albanese's win, Peter Dutton's failure, Greens performance and more

It's been a busy week for politics around the world - with elections taking place in Australia, Singapore and the UK. 

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's lead the Labor Party to a triumphant win, securing a majority Government. 

Sky News Correspondent Laura Jayes talks to Mike Hosking about the election, what went wrong for Peter Dutton and how the Greens performed. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Major weekend of democracy, from the local vote in the
UK of course, to Singapore and of course Australia, where
the government fired expectations to some degree at least by
not just winning but storming home in and doing so,
not just getting a second term, but decimating the opposition
who now have to not just pick up the pieces
but find themselves a new leader. It's Goy News Australia's
Laura Jays is back with this us. Laura, very good
morning to you, Good morning. Thoroughly enjoyed the coverage on

(00:22):
Saturday night. The majority, I think the majority was a chance,
but so was a minority. How big a shock was
what actually happened.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, none of the polls picked up, not even the
internal polling of the Labor Party picked it up. So
it was a shock to everyone. I mean, the best
case scenario going in were kind of talking about Labor
having high seventies, a good night for Labor going in
was going to be eighty seats and the Liberal Party
was still talking about picking up somewhere between five and ten.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
And look where we're at exactly the Greens, I note
this morning have one is that about as good as
because yesterday they had none. Is one as good as
it gets?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, one is probably as good as it gets. I
mean it's interesting because that have increased their primary votes slightly,
but that's not how our parliamentary system works, so it's
not the rules of the game. So I mean one.
I mean, if Adam bad was to lose his seat,

(01:20):
Labor would see that as well. The whole Parliament would
see that as a big win, I think, But that
one Max Chandel may them so that he's the Green
that's lost his seat. He held that by ten point
five percent in Queensland in Griffith, and that was Kevin
Run's old seat, so that was a real grudge match
for Anthony Alberezi, so to get that back was pretty

(01:42):
sweet for him.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I run through the names, Angus Taylor, Andrew Hasty, Dante
and Susan Lay. Are these obvious names to replace? Dun't know?
We just don't know, I mean the most obvious.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
But the hard truth for the Liberal Party is you
look at those names and they don't scream leaders, none
of them. The fact that they have to turn their
attention to one of those full names is really an
indictment on the party and where they're at right now.
I mean Angus Taylor. He's a good performer, he's the
Shadow Treasurer, but he's tied to Pitter Dutton and this

(02:16):
loss Labor Party. People saying to me all throughout the
campaign you only ever get one Angus Taylor, and that
was said in a disparaging way. Susan Lay. I mean
she's had to say from pre selection three times she's
a woman in the mix. But honestly, I don't think
that would be a good direction for the Liberal Party

(02:37):
to go. Andrew Hasty such an impressive young person. I
mean he's former sas soldiers. He is brilliant, but he
has not been in there fighting for the Liberal Party
in a political sense. There's a view that he's tried
to keep his powder dry and he holds a w
on his seat. I mean, with the decimation on the

(02:59):
East close, can you really go with a WA leader?
And that leads you with Danteen. He's really a nice guy,
really impressive. He's had to fight off this independent in
his seat of one on the outer edges of Melbourne,
so I think he's probably he would be my pick,

(03:21):
but I think any leader that you're going to get
in the Liberal Party now is just an interim leader.
They're not going to be there to fight the next election.
They need to really dig in, find some talent and
start pre selecting some good people. The problem is they
can't find young people or women to vote for them
or run for them over join the party.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
What risk he did so well elbow other side of
the fence that it all goes to his head and
their head and they blow.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
It, absolutely mate, I mean, that's the biggest reskuse it.
We saw that with John Howard and work Choices we
had control of the House and the Senate. Now that's
not the same scenario here. But hubris is always always big,
big risk here, and there is a chance at the
Labor Party try to overreach. I mean, I asked slightly

(04:09):
said about this yesterday. A strong government is when you
have a strong opposition or we don't have that. We
don't have a strong opposition. We have a very strong
cross bench in the Teals, So I think the Teals
need to step up play a bigger role even though
they don't have the balance of power. I mean there's
things like negative gearing. We know that Labor in their

(04:30):
heart and hearts want to touch it out without a mandate.
I think it would be poisonous, but you know, they
might just try it, but we will see.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Always a pleasure lawyer, I appreciate getting up in the
early hours of the morning. Laura Jay's out of the
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