Australia Senate, Adam Bandt election results LIVE: Donald Trump fires off humiliating one-sentence comment about Peter Dutton – as Anthony Albanese speaks to US President

By PETER VAN ONSELEN, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA and DANIEL PIOTROWSKI FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 01:53 BST, 5 May 2025 | Updated: 03:24 BST, 5 May 2025

Follow Daily Mail Australia’s live coverage of the aftermath of Labor’s landslide election win as big names battle to keep their seats and the bloodletting begins.

Albo details what he and Trump said to each other in their call this morning

The PM said: ‘I had a very warm and positive conversation about President Trump just a short while ago while I was at the Lodge.

‘I thanked him for his very warm message of congratulations. We talked about AUKUS and tariffs.

‘We will continue to engage with each other on a face-to-face basis at some time in the future.

‘But it was a very warm (trails off)… And I thanked him for reaching out in such a positive way as well.’

The PM is then asked when he will visit the United States and whether a June trip is on the cards.

Albanese declines to answer the question properly: ‘I’ll make an announcement when we have an announcement.’

BREAKING: Donald Trump’s humiliating one-sentence verdict on Peter Dutton

Donald Trump has admitted he has no idea who Peter Dutton is while praising Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for being ‘very nice’ to him.

Quizzed about the Australian election result outside the White House on Monday morning AEST, the US President said: ‘Albanese I’m very friendly with. I don’t know anything about the election… the man that won is very good.’

Asked about Albanese’s previous comments that Trump’s across-the-board 10 per cent tariffs were ‘not the act of a friend’, Trump said: ‘I can only say he’s been very, very nice to me, very respectful to me.

‘I have no idea who the other person is that ran against him.

‘We’ve had a very good relationship.’

Watch the exchange below.

Dutton has never met Trump – and is not particularly likely to after losing the election and his own seat of Dickson on Saturday night.

A Daily Mail Australia-Ipsos poll carried out during the campaign found that voters saw the Coalition as narrowly better than Labor at handling Trump, 32 per cent to 29 per cent.

But a local backlash to Trump’s agenda is widely seen as a factor responsible for Dutton’s election wipeout.

Albo’s quote of the day

‘I came out of the womb Labor, I’ll go into the ground Labor when it’s all over’, the PM said.

And with that, the PM’s press conference is over.

Albo’s first priority is cutting 20 per cent of Aussies’ HECS-HELP bills

The PM is asked: ‘Once you have sorted out the frontbench and everyone has been sworn in, when it comes to legislation and policy, what is the first item on the agenda for you?’

Albanese said: ‘A 20 per cent cut in student debt. As I promised.’

Asked when Parliament will come back to enact his agenda, Albanese hinted it will come back before June 30, ahead of the newly elected Senate being sworn in.

Were there any promises from Donald Trump this morning especially when it comes to tariffs? PM is asked

The PM doesn’t really get into the substance of the question. He said Trump was very generous in his ‘personal warmth and praise towards myself.

‘He was fully aware of the outcome and he expressed his desire to continue to work with me in the future.’

Albo at press conference: I’ve spoken to President Trump

PM Albanese is addressing the media in the Prime Minister’s courtyard at Parliament House.

Here’s the highlights so far.

Albo claims he has a clear mandate from the Australian people
He denies the result will make his government arrogant: ‘We are deeply humbled by the result on Saturday and won’t take a second of it for granted’
‘If we get this decade right, we can set Australia up for the many decades ahead’
Albo has spoken to Donald Trump, Papua New Guinea’s James Marape, the UK’s Keir Starmer and Canada’s newly elected Mark Carney since his election win, among other leaders. Canada’s PM has invited him to the G7 meeting in the coming weeks
Albo says he wants to slow the pace of government over the coming days and will speak to colleagues about the composition of his frontbench

Monique Ryan walks back her claim of victory in the seat of Kooyong

In a statement on Monday, Ryan said: ‘The election result in Kooyong is too close to call at this point.

‘It will take some days – possibly some weeks – for the outcome to be confirmed.

‘Thank you Kooyong, for your support. Thanks to my team, and my family. Thanks to all of the Kooyong volunteers for your extraordinary hard work. And thanks to the AEC workers who are still dealing with a whole lot of ballots.’

Ryan is still ahead of Liberal Amelia Hamer by 1,891 votes as of midday Monday – but the race has tightened significantly.

Re-elected PM Albanese set to front the media

The PM is set to front a press conference at Parliament House in a matter of minutes.

Stay with us as we cover it live.

Jacqui Lambie in a tight race for her Senate seat with Pauline Hanson’s daughter Lee

She’s widely regarded as one of the most popular politicians in Australia but Jacqui Lambie faces an uncertain future.

Latest figures from the Australian Electoral Commission show Lambie has 0.47 of a quota, leading Falls on 0.43 and Hanson on 0.39.

Labor has secured at least two seats, the Liberals one and the Greens another. Liberal Richard Colbeck is ahead in the race for the fifth Senate seat.

But Lambie is in for a nailbiter.

The composition of the Senate often takes several days after federal elections to become clear.

Senior reporter Steve Jackson interviewed Lee Hanson – Pauline’s daughter – earlier in the campaign. Read the profile piece below.

Another Teal candidate leaps ahead in battle with Labor MP – this time in the seat of Fremantle

A Teal candidate who waited eight days to report her husband missing after he went for a drunken, late-night swim is leading in the Labor-held seat of Fremantle.

Kate Hulett has a narrow 50.1 per cent to 49.9 per cent lead over incumbent Labor MP and Assistant Climate Change Minister Josh Wilson, and was leading by 196 votes after scoring a massive 17 per cent swing against Labor in the gentrified portside Perth electorate.

If the trend continues, with 79 per cent of the vote counted, Labor would lose a prized federal seat it has held continuously since 1934, with wartime prime minister John Curtin and Australia’s first female premier Carmen Lawrence among its high-profile former members.

More from economics reporter Stephen Johnson below.

Barnaby Joyce is going in for surgery today after prostate cancer diagnosis

Barnaby Joyce revealed last night that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Here’s what he had to say.

Gina Rinehart opens up about election result

Australia’s richest person has urged the Liberal Party not to turn away from Trump-style policies and to use its ‘devastating’ federal election loss as a time to rebuild.

Gina Rinehart – a close supporter of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton – issued a lengthy statement on Monday.

Adam Bandt election results: Greens leader breaks silence over falling behind again

Greens leader Adam Bandt fell behind his Labor rival Sarah Witty in the count for his seat of Melbourne on Sunday evening.

He was still lagging behind Witty as of 10.40am on Monday morning after counting resumed.

At the minute, Witty leads by an estimated 2,899 votes, with an extraordinary swing of 8.6 per cent to the ALP in the inner-city seat.

‘We are feeling confident in Melbourne,’ Bandt said. He stressed that he will not be conceding at this point.

But he has real reason to worry with two of his colleagues – Anthony Albanese’s nemesis Max Chandler-Mathers and Stephen Bates – defeated by Labor in their south-east Queensland seats of Griffith and Brisbane respectively.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on the vote totals as the day’s counting unfolds. More details in this story below.

Liberal knives are already out: Angus Taylor blasted on radio as he’s touted as a leadership contender

A prospective Liberal leadership hopeful has already been publicly knifed by a prominent former Coalition senator.

Holly Hughes, who until recently was a Liberal senator for NSW, told ABC Radio National that Angus Taylor is not capable of leading the party out of the political wilderness.

‘There’s a reason I won’t be voting for someone in the leadership ballot if they put their name forward,’ she said on Monday.

‘I have concerns about (Taylor’s) capability.

‘We’re in a massive cost of living crisis and [Treasurer] Jim Chalmers has basically skated through unscathed.

‘And I was receiving that feedback even from Labor MPs who were like, “Are you serious? What’s going on?”‘

Anonymous Liberal insiders heaped criticism on the party’s economic strategy this morning, arguing the Coalition failed to capitalise on the government’s superannuation and tax on unrealised gains policies.

Scott Morrison defeated Bill Shorten in 2019 with a relentless focus on Labor’s economic policies – which was Taylor’s remit.

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