LIVE: Polls have closed in the east and vote counting is about to get underway. Follow the federal election updates here.
Polling has closed across NSW, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and Queensland.The Australian Electoral Commission says anyone still queuing when the polls shut at 6pm can still vote.The AEC says there will be large pre-poll votes that won’t be available until late in the night, and all counting will cease at midnight local time.
On the Sky News election night panel, Regionalisation Minister Bridget McKenzie, Queensland LNP Senator James McGrath, outgoing Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon and Queensland Senator Murray Watt are appearing.“No matter how many gaffes he made, or how many gotcha questions came, he stuck to the plan and he gets great credit for that,” he says.Fitzgibbon says Albanese is across numbers, and there’s a difference between not knowing and not remembering a figure.
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