Albanese secures stunning victory

June 2025 Anthony Albanese has secured a stunning federal election win while delivering a devastating result for the Coalition that cost Peter Dutton his own seat. As counting continued on Saturday night, Labor had secured a significantly improved majority with Albanese becoming the first prime minister to win a second term since John Howard in 2004. “Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values, for fairness, aspiration and opportunity for all,” Albanese told a raucous crowd of Labor supporters at Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL Club in Sydney’s inner-west. “Australians have chosen to face global challenges the Australian way, looking after each other while building for the future.” The final results on the Australian Electoral Commission website, have Labor on 94 seats while the Coalition are on 43 seats, 1 Green and 12 independents. The federal Liberals’ last bastion in metropolitan Adelaide has toppled, with the electorate of Sturt now firmly in Labor’s hands. It’s a seat that by many measures should be Liberal heartland, sitting in Adelaide’s leafy eastern suburbs. “I am obviously very bitterly disappointed that I am the custodian of losing the seat of Sturt,” he said. “This regrettably is not the only seat tonight that we are losing for the first time in a long time.” The comprehensive victory, which defied predictions of a hung parliament, hands Albanese a clear mandate to deliver a second- term agenda that includes slashing student debt, more free GP visits and building homes for first home buyers. The opposition leader was the biggest casualty of what some Liberal MPs were calling a “bloodbath”, losing his marginal Brisbane seat of Dickson to Labor’s Ali France. The defeat ends Dutton’s 24-year career in parliament. “We did not do well enough during this campaign,” Dutton told Coalition supporters in Brisbane. “That much is obvious tonight and I accept full responsibility for that.” The Greens also had a bad night, with housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather and Brisbane MP Stephen Bates on track for defeat and the party behind in its target seat of Wills in inner-city Melbourne. The Greens secured only the seat of Ryan in Brisbane.

Greek Tribune Adelaide, South Australia