Hello, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's election night, Saturday, the third of May.
I'm Zara Sidler, I'm Sam Kazlowski.
We thought we'd drop into your feeds with a quick update on what we've just learned from today's election. Now, the TLDR is that Labor is going to form the next government here in Australia and Anthony Albanezi will serve a second term as Prime Minister.
And it's been, Zara, a really decisive victory for Labor. Give me a sense of what our listeners need to know before they go to bed tonight.
Yeah. Look, I won't blame you if you're a ready asleep, but I'll try to be quick, make it snappy. So the first thing you need to know is that Labor is going to govern in a majority. We don't know how many seats they'll get to, but everyone is predicting that it's going to be above eighty seats.
So you can say with confidence that it's going to be above seventy six, right.
Correct, So they're well and truly past the majority line. They have increased their majority from last election, which is very very rare. Anthony Albanesi in winning this election, has become the first prime minister to win two elections in a row since John Howard in two thousand and four. So a big night for the Labor Party and a big night for Anthony Albanesi as Prime minister.
Let's touch on what happened on the other side of politics, though, and it wasn't a good night for the Liberal Party and their leader, Peter Dundon.
Yeah, exactly. So Liberal Party leader Peter Dunnan has lost his seat of Dixon. So after decades in parliament holding onto that marginal seat, he has lost it to Ali France and he will leave parliament. That means he's no longer going to be the leader of the Liberal Party and the Liberal Party will now in the days following
this election need to elect a new party leader. The party itself lost a bunch of seats across the nation in all parts of the country, so no doubt the Liberal Party will have a lot of big discussions in the days to come.
And before we got this, can you just bring me up to speed quickly on the minor parties, so the Greens, but also I'm interested to hear how the Teals went tonight as well.
Yeah, so the Greens. It's a bit confusing, and this is one of those times where we probably need to wait until tomorrow or Monday to get a really clear picture. But what it's looking like is that overall the Greens primary vote has increased across Australia, but on a seat by seat basis, all sitting Greens MP's are actually facing big challenges and some of them might not hold on significantly. Leader Adam Band is facing a very close contest in
his seat of Melbourne. So it could be that we have two leaders of parties in Australian Parliament who lose their seats at this election. Again, too early to call. We are not comfortable to make that call now. But the Greens we will be keeping a close eye on. And then you ask about the Teals. At the time of recording, every single one of the Teals have held on to their seats except Kylie Tink, but we knew she was losing her seat because seat was abolished the
seat of North Sydney. So aside from Karli Tink, every single seat has been retained by a steel.
We're going to give you a full rundown on the election on Monday morning, but for now, I'll leave you with what a couple of the major media players in the country are leading with on their front pages, and that's pretty simple across all of them. It's labor Landslide. Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch you up properly on Monday. My name is Lily Madden and I'm
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