Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a majority government following a disastrous night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.
At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.
It used to be closer to the former, the rise of The Greens as a third force in Australian politics has been a result of the right faction of the Labor party pushing them away from some of those roots as it desperately tried to win elections. Many Greens voters are former voters from the Labor left. With Labor’s main opponents in complete disarray, however, there is potentially a greater possibility for it to shift left over the next term (and longer, depending on how quickly their opposition regroups).