For months Victoria was being painted as Labor’s problem child with fears safe seats in the outer suburbs were going to turn on the ALP. Instead, another red wave has come crashing down across Melbourne – but all banishing the Liberals from the city.
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00:00Melbourne is a sea of red, a Labor wave washing across the city.
00:07To visit a returned Liberal MP, you have to drive all the way to Berwick or Belgrave.
00:12An emphatic outcome.
00:14It's relief for Premier Jacinta Allen.
00:16Her performance and popularity front and centre in the Liberals' failed campaign.
00:21The results yesterday, they're not despite what's going on here in Victoria,
00:25they're because of what's going on here in Victoria.
00:29That focus on building, on homes, in airport rail, suburban rail loop.
00:34Even on polling day, Labor operatives were nervous about what drag the Premier may be on the party's vote,
00:39particularly in the outer burbs.
00:41I think Peter Dutton was a drag on the Liberal vote.
00:44It's pretty devastating.
00:45At the start of the campaign, Labor feared it would lose many seats in Victoria, including Chisholm.
00:50The turnaround put down to strong local campaigns.
00:54What really matters is what people on the ground are talking to you about.
00:58There's a lot of lessons that we're going to have to take away and learn from what's happened here today.
01:02We need to listen to the Australian people.
01:04Victorian Liberals have been here before, with voters shunning the party in droves.
01:08And while the state opposition should be in a competitive position for next year's state election,
01:13this result shows it can take nothing for granted.
01:16Privately, Liberals concede they need to do more serious policy work and engage better with communities,
01:21or else they may suffer a similar fate.
01:24Australians have chosen...
01:26Labor has even won Menzies, defeating rising star Keith Wollohan.
01:30But there is one blip for Labor, and it's in Jacinta Allen's backyard.
01:34The Nationals' Andrew Lethleen bucking the trend,
01:37with a huge swing putting him within reach of victory.
01:40Counting continues.
01:42They did everything they could to distance themselves from Peter Dutton and the Liberal Party.
01:49G'day guys, how are ya?
01:50There's still seats to watch.
01:52Labor is just ahead of the Greens and Wills, and even Adam Bant's seat of Melbourne.
01:55While the results in Corwell, Flinders and Monash could take days.
01:59CARVEL CLINTON