Good afternoon, everyone.
The election wash-up continues, with the Labor party now expecting to extend their majority in the Senate. While the upper house looks like it will be awash with more red, the party will still have to work with the 11 Greens senators who have all retained their seats.
There are some interesting seats in the lower house yet to be determined, with the race in both Goldstein and Kooyong too tight to call, despite both teal MPs, Zoe Daniel and Monique Ryan, declaring victory on Saturday night.
As the Liberal party gears up to start looking for a new leader, there has been inevitable introspection; Senator Andrew Bragg said it was time to step back from the culture wars and Dave Sharma said the party faces an existential crisis and needs to be more representative.
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In pictures
Donald Trump addresses the White House press pack, saying he was “very friendly with” Anthony Albanese, but had “no idea” who Peter Dutton was.
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“We do have to have the hard conversations now about how we become more gender-balanced [and have] a broader diversity.”
Outgoing Liberal senator Linda Reynolds has blamed the male dominance of Liberals for the election failure, and thrown her support behind deputy leader Sussan Ley.
In numbers
The seventh season of Den stora älgvandringen (The Great Moose Migration, also translated as The Great Elk Trek) has ended, after nearly three weeks of uninterrupted footage streamed via SVT Play, the platform of Sweden’s national broadcaster.
Before bed read
Lindor Evangelista. Shak Shookher. Paula Roid. This Facebook group about drag names became Lucinda Price’s favourite place on the internet. It’s both delightful and deranged, she writes.
Daily word game
Today’s starter word is: SATI . You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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