Labor secures its 75th seat, on cusp of securing its second majority since 1993; Foreign Minister Penny Wong urges Pacific nations not to sign up to sweeping Chinese multilateral agreement. Follow updates here.
Former employment minister Stuart Robert has told voters not to judge Peter Dutton on his previous decisions and comments including about climate change and same-sex marriage.
“You can’t judge someone on either comments they’ve made or decisions they’ve done when they’re exercising their either personal conscience or their particular viewpoint,” Robert told ABC RN Breakfast. “Just because someone’s got a different view ... to the ABC, respectfully, doesn’t make them terrible or wrong,” Robert replied.
Robert refused to weigh in on reports former prime minister Scott Morrison instructed the Australia Border Force to release on election day details about the interception of an asylum seeker boat from Sri Lanka.
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