While 16 seats are still too close to call, Labor is guaranteed a sizeable majority in the lower house with 85 seats at last count compared to the Coalition's 49.
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00:00The Prime Minister, with a certain swagger, returns to work.
00:07Ascending Capitol Hill, arguably at the peak of his political power.
00:12We've been an ambitious government. We'll continue to be an ambitious government.
00:16But we won't get carried away.
00:18It'll be hard not to. Saturday's election delivered a Labor landslide,
00:23decimated its political rivals and achieved Anthony Albanese's long-held ambition.
00:29I want Labor to be the natural party of government.
00:32But it's very clear that we will have a substantial majority in the House of Representatives.
00:38No majority in the Senate, but Labor looks to have increased its numbers
00:43and may be able to solely rely on the Greens to pass legislation the Coalition opposes.
00:49The Greens are now in sole balance of power in the next Parliament.
00:53A power he's being warned to use wisely by a Prime Minister with policies
00:58determined to implement.
01:00We have a clear mandate to build more housing.
01:03The key is supply. The key is supply.
01:07You know, get out of the way.
01:09The Greens' housing spokesman, who opposed Labor's plans in the last Parliament,
01:13is out of the way and out of the Parliament.
01:16One of the party's casualties on Saturday.
01:19On a night that saw voters reject a lurch to the left and right.
01:24There's a lot of blame to go around here.
01:26And one Senator's directing it all at leadership aspirant Angus Taylor.
01:31The economic narrative was just completely non-existent.
01:35I'm not quite sure what he's been doing for three years.
01:38But party stalwarts say their problems run far deeper than that.
01:43I think as a party, we have lost our way.
01:47We have failed as a political movement to keep up with the values and priorities
01:52of contemporary Australia.
01:53After back-to-back losses, the Liberal Party is now in the grip of an existential crisis,
01:58riven with factionalism and unable to articulate what or who they stand for.
02:04It's a problem that started at the state level and is now being echoed across the country.