Melbourne

Even though I care not for the spud, after Trump and the shenanigans about stolen elections, I am proud that I live somewhere where elections are called and there is some basic civility around the gracious defeat speech then the victory speech. This might be the bottle of bubbly talking...

Looking forward to drinking a toast to Peter Dutton, former member for Dickson (fingers crossed).

Fuck yeah!!!!!!!!! Antony Green called it for Labor and WA has barely closed lmao

Check it out, following all the way from the Soup:

Can't believe it's already been called, this is wild.

The most important thing now is to see if Purple Pingerz makes the Senate

Today is my birthday. A cool present would be to get the LNP out of here.

time for some sleep, I've spent the day busy and also some comfort eating

I feel like I can make plans for the future knowing there aren't fascists in power

sweet dreams everyone 😘

Antony has just called it.

Labor wins government, possibly with a large majority.

Right. 6 pm. Heeeere we gooooooo!

We'll miss Antony Green. What a legend.

I guess Casey Briggs got a test run during Covid when people were calling him "the Antony Green of death", and he'll be good, but it won't be the same.

Fascinating watching the abc at the moment, the libs won’t own up to their mistakes and talk crap.

It’s honestly embarrassing.

Happy with the results, now time to put my local MP through the wringer so she actually addresses the real problems.

Majority government is good, they might actually get some shit done. The LNP will be very weak, like in Vic, which isn't actually great for democracy going forward, but maybe it'll convince them that they need to be less super right wing and they'll ultimately end up as a more moderate party. Maybe.

Thank god I voted early. I woke up feeling both barrels of the New Sickness one of the boys has. To top it off, he didn't want me in the bed with him after I gave him medicine after 1am so I went and slept on the couch.

Last thing I'd want to do whilst sick and after a terrible sleep is my civic duty.

Well it’s done. I didn’t have to wait as long as I thought for the result. I was thinking Labour would win, but thought it would be a narrower result. I can rest easy tonight, and hopefully wake up to news Dutton has lost his seat.

Wow. The Coalition guy speaking now on ABC is being amazingly honest. I'm impressed

Dad's involved in the counting for Kooyong. Obviously he's limited to very simple communications, but he sounds like he's having a ball

Done! Now show me the senate 😺

Kids party next door. Adults talking politics and getting fairly heated. Kids playing pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey. Much noise. Pray for me.

Oh Antony Green. Bless

Wow. Turning up to Victoria and trashing it was not a great strategy for the Libs. /s

My short wishlist for today:

• Devastating LNP loss
• Dutton loses his seat
• Amelia Hamer is never heard from again

I'm not sure who this Liberal on the ABC is but he's edging closer to a full tantrum and I am here for it.

Looking forward to seeing the results, having some nachos and wishing for a better future for all of us

You're all enjoying the count. The polls haven't even shut here yet

The 'live' results on the abc news live coverage have been updated after a couple of hours of just sitting there static - Labour = 81 seats!

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EDIT: Now 84 seats.

Damn, it was called early. What happened? I thought it was going to be a close one.

Antony Green said it so it's true!

This Canadia wishes you Aussies the best possible outcome! You can do it!

My booth had more people on the cake and sausage stalls then out the front with fliers. That's something a lot of countries wouldn't understand and I think it's awesome. Democracy done. School supported and choc chip bickkies in mah tummy

You know that bit where Mr Burns laughs at the injured Irishman....? Can someone redo that but with Dutton losing?

Edit- this one