Labor edges closer to an outright majority in the lower house after winning the New South Wales seat of Bennelong, taking the party's tally to 73. Follow live.
Nationals LeaderThe Nationals are set to keep allBut under party rules, the start of the new parliament triggers an automatic spill of the Nationals leadership."That is entirely for the room and I'm quite happy with the democratic process," he said.
"I'm quite at ease with it. I talk to my colleagues all the time. I am quite at ease with the democratic porocess. That is what I love about the Nationals. We are the most democratic organisation. Totally at ease with it." Mr Joyce dismissed any suggestion his party cost the Coalition seats in urban electorates, won by teal independents who likened a vote for Liberal moderates as a vote for the Nationals who had long refused to back the net zero target.
"I'm not in the Liberal Party, I'm in the Nationals … people in inner-urban areas are not that stupid that they wouldn't realise that the Nationals are not actually standing in their seats," he said.
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