“I’m the Prime Minister; we’ve had an election and Australians have voted”, Turnbull said.
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New Zealand’s leader said he had been in regular contact with Turnbull since the cliffhanger election, which was held eight days ago.
After meeting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Cathy McGowan confirms she would support the Government.
“I’m not interested really very much in what the Prime Minister says or doesn’t say on the backpacker tax”, he said.
“You’d have to say that we are an election-winning machine in the Liberal Party”, Pyne added.
Labor regained power in 2007, electing Kevin Rudd the country’s prime minister after 11 years of conservative rule. Before then he will have to sign an official Coalition agreement with Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce.
“In the last hung parliament we noticed the three independents who decided the government actually raised the profile of the issue and wanted to talk about it”, she said.
He said his victory last weekend was one of the sweetest.
He said he would work with Shorten on a proposal to introduce electronic voting to speed up the process of finalising the election results.
He also acknowledged the massive swing against the Coalition and the “disillusionment” of voters towards the major political parties.
M alcolm Turnbull has said he is “very confident” of achieving a majority as the Coalition becomes the firm favourite to form government.
That message aligns with the Fair Go for Regional Australia that this masthead has been running along with other Australian Regional Media and NewsCorp titles. He said he had spoken to Turnbull on Sunday to congratulate him on his victory.
As of Wednesday, Australian Broadcasting Corp. election analysts – considered among the most reliable – were predicting that the coalition had 70 seats, Labor 67 and the minor parties and independents were leading in five seats in the House of Representatives.
“I hope they run a good government”.
“If Mr Turnbull is dragged across the line narrowly his problems and Australia’s are only just beginning”, Shorten told reporters in the western city of Perth.
He said the government should consider re-examining its superannuation changes to ensure they are not retrospective.
He waited too long to call the election after toppling Abbott and saw his initial opinion poll bounce wither.
Mr Turnbull met with Queensland independent MP Bob Katter today to discuss the potential nature of a deal to form minority government, if the Coalition does not get 76 seats in the lower house. Mail-in and absentee votes that are still being counted days after Saturday’s vote are favoring the conservatives.
When the vote is progressed to two-party preferred results, the AEC had Labor and the Coalition nearly dead-heated for votes, with Labor slightly ahead at 5,203,254 votes, ahead of the Coalition’s 5,203,230.
The fifth, also in Queensland, has the sitting Coalition member widening his lead over Labor after being behind in the count on Tuesday night.
Labor looks like holding 69 seats, a substantial improvement on the 2013 election rout which left Labor with 55 seats. “Being elected as the first indigenous woman into the House of Representatives is a moment for this country… this was not lost on the people of Barton”.
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The seat count so far is 73 for the coalition, 66 Labor, one Greens, four independent and six in doubt: Capricornia, Cowan, Forde, Herbert, Hindmarsh and Flynn.
