Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's election night, Saturday,
Speaker 1: the third of May.
Speaker 2: I'm Zara Sidler, I'm Sam Kazlowski.
Speaker 1: We thought we'd drop into your feeds with a quick
Speaker 1: update on what we've just learned from today's election. Now,
Speaker 1: the TLDR is that Labor is going to form the
Speaker 1: next government here in Australia and Anthony Albanezi will serve
Speaker 1: a second term as Prime Minister.
Speaker 2: And it's been, Zara, a really decisive victory for Labor.
Speaker 2: Give me a sense of what our listeners need to
Speaker 2: know before they go to bed tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I won't blame you if you're a ready asleep,
Speaker 1: but I'll try to be quick, make it snappy. So
Speaker 1: the first thing you need to know is that Labor
Speaker 1: is going to govern in a majority. We don't know
Speaker 1: how many seats they'll get to, but everyone is predicting
Speaker 1: that it's going to be above eighty seats.
Speaker 2: So you can say with confidence that it's going to
Speaker 2: be above seventy six, right.
Speaker 1: Correct, So they're well and truly past the majority line.
Speaker 1: They have increased their majority from last election, which is
Speaker 1: very very rare. Anthony Albanesi in winning this election, has
Speaker 1: become the first prime minister to win two elections in
Speaker 1: a row since John Howard in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: So a big night for the Labor Party and a
Speaker 1: big night for Anthony Albanesi as Prime minister.
Speaker 2: Let's touch on what happened on the other side of politics, though,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't a good night for the Liberal Party
Speaker 2: and their leader, Peter Dundon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So Liberal Party leader Peter Dunnan has lost
Speaker 1: his seat of Dixon. So after decades in parliament holding
Speaker 1: onto that marginal seat, he has lost it to Ali
Speaker 1: France and he will leave parliament. That means he's no
Speaker 1: longer going to be the leader of the Liberal Party
Speaker 1: and the Liberal Party will now in the days following
Speaker 1: this election need to elect a new party leader. The
Speaker 1: party itself lost a bunch of seats across the nation
Speaker 1: in all parts of the country, so no doubt the
Speaker 1: Liberal Party will have a lot of big discussions in
Speaker 1: the days to come.
Speaker 2: And before we got this, can you just bring me
Speaker 2: up to speed quickly on the minor parties, so the Greens,
Speaker 2: but also I'm interested to hear how the Teals went
Speaker 2: tonight as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the Greens. It's a bit confusing, and this
Speaker 1: is one of those times where we probably need to
Speaker 1: wait until tomorrow or Monday to get a really clear picture.
Speaker 1: But what it's looking like is that overall the Greens
Speaker 1: primary vote has increased across Australia, but on a seat
Speaker 1: by seat basis, all sitting Greens MP's are actually facing
Speaker 1: big challenges and some of them might not hold on significantly.
Speaker 1: Leader Adam Band is facing a very close contest in
Speaker 1: his seat of Melbourne. So it could be that we
Speaker 1: have two leaders of parties in Australian Parliament who lose
Speaker 1: their seats at this election. Again, too early to call.
Speaker 1: We are not comfortable to make that call now. But
Speaker 1: the Greens we will be keeping a close eye on.
Speaker 1: And then you ask about the Teals. At the time
Speaker 1: of recording, every single one of the Teals have held
Speaker 1: on to their seats except Kylie Tink, but we knew
Speaker 1: she was losing her seat because seat was abolished the
Speaker 1: seat of North Sydney. So aside from Karli Tink, every
Speaker 1: single seat has been retained by a steel.
Speaker 2: We're going to give you a full rundown on the
Speaker 2: election on Monday morning, but for now, I'll leave you
Speaker 2: with what a couple of the major media players in
Speaker 2: the country are leading with on their front pages, and
Speaker 2: that's pretty simple across all of them. It's labor Landslide.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch you up
Speaker 2: properly on Monday. My name is Lily Madden and I'm
Speaker 2: a proud Arunda Bunjelung Calcotin woman from Gadighl country. The
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Speaker 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island and nations.
Speaker 2: We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,
Speaker 2: both past and present.