Union members have celebrated Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s thumping election win as thousands took the streets to mark Labour Day while the LNP reflects on its losses.
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00:00A victory lap after a victorious weekend.
00:06Winners of Greenwich, Ali French!
00:09The crowd embracing a new Labor legend.
00:12The new member for Dixon heralded as a giant slayer at Brisbane's Labor Day March.
00:17This is really not a me thing, this is a team thing.
00:20A federal Labor team that's significantly swelled in size in Queensland.
00:25We have made a huge contribution to this victory, massive contribution.
00:29I don't know about a victory rally but certainly a win for the movement.
00:33There's a truck with my photo on it and my name and someone crawled up and wrote MP after my name and that was a bit of a moment.
00:40Union members revelled in the moment.
00:42It's electric, it's fantastic, everybody's extremely excited after the election.
00:47It's lovely, we're all celebrating aren't we? It's wonderful.
00:50The weather's been a bit grey and gloomy with a bit of rain here and there but it hasn't deterred the crowds from turning out in their thousands.
00:58The 260,000 public sector workers, their enterprise agreements are up and they deserve to have a fair, decent and funded wage rise.
01:08We're continuing to negotiate and we're doing it in good faith.
01:11The Premier's side of politics also continues to mull over its disastrous federal poll loss.
01:17Elections are bruising and at the moment the federal, liberal and national parties have got soul searching to do.
01:24That's part of the democratic process.
01:26It is gut wrenching for all of us.
01:29Michelle Landry also dismissed suggestions from within her own party that Nationals leader David Littleproud should go.
01:36I do not back those calls. I think David's done a fantastic job.
01:40I think the nuclear is a good policy and we should stick with nuclear.
01:43It's not just the coalition licking their wounds.
01:46It's bittersweet in Queensland.
01:48The Greens are hopeful of holding one Queensland seat.
01:52We're looking to retain Ryan. The counting's still underway but it's looking really positive there.
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