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Labor will move to cut student debt as its first re-election priority with the prime minister claiming a mandate to press forward with housing reform.

The party will need to think long and hard about their history if they are to find a way out of their current mess

Despite relentless commentary about the premier’s unpopularity, the state swung even harder to Labor than in 2022, while the Liberal party blame game has begun

Seven female Labor candidates, ‘enough for an entire netball team’, have won seats in the sunshine state, with Anika Wells praising the party for ‘empowering women’

Australia’s federal election, held less than a week after Canada’s, has produced a shockingly similar outcome. Commentators all over the world have pointed out the parallels.

On February 1, on The Conversation’s podcast, Anthony Albanese not only declared that Labor would retain majority government, but held out the prospect it could win the Victorian Liberal seats of Menzies and Deakin.

Minor parties were all the rage at the last election when, along with independent candidates, they secured almost a third of votes.

Albanese’s party is on track for at least 85 seats and the final tally could well be more. Plus: the major party vote continues to shrink

When the newspapers delivered their standard election-eve editorials, there were few surprises. Former Fairfax papers and smaller outlets offered qualified support for Labor, while the News Corp papers unashamedly championed the Coalition. In Adelaide, The Advertiser ran a curious line recommending a majority government of whatever persuasion, “lest our futures…

While counting continues nationally, the federal election result is definitive: a pro-Labor landslide and an opposition leader voted out.

Labor is set to pick up three more seats in the Senate, paving the way for an easier path to passing laws through the upper house.