Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead either a minority or 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.
Early results put the Coalition with next to no chance of getting the swings needed to pick up the key seats required to form government, even with pre-polls and postals, which are counted later on, still to come through.
Instead, it was Labor gaining significant swings across the country, from Leichhardt in Far North Queensland to Bennelong in Sydney and Bass in Tasmania.
Even in Dutton’s own seat of Dickson, there was a swing against the LNP which could put the opposition leader at risk of losing his own electorate.
But at the same time, the primary vote for both major parties was low, with more than a third of the country voting for the Greens, independents and other minor parties.
“The domination between the blue and the red is no more,” Nine national affairs editor Andrew Probyn said.
More to come.