Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s centre-right coalition government has been defeated at the federal election, with Anthony Albanese awaiting vote counting to determine if his centre-left Labor party can form a majority government.
Albanese has pledged to bring Australians together after defeating the nine-year-old Liberal-National coalition government.
Morrison conceded defeat on Saturday night with Labor projected to hold 77 seats in the 151-seat parliament—76 seats are needed to win majority government.
The coalition is projected to hold 59 seats, with as many as 15 crossbenchers including four left-wing Greens MPs, according to election analyst William Bowe.
However, as vote counting continued the Australian Electoral Commission officially listed Labor as holding 75 seats, the coalition 51, with 12 crossbenchers, and the remaining undecided….