Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to party supporters after his opponent concedes defeat in the federal election in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, May 19, 2019. “The prime minister led from the front,” Frydenberg told ABC TV. Rather than frame the election as a battle between him and the more outgoing Morrison, Labor strategists instead pushed a broad platform of policies. Shorten would have been Australia’s sixth prime minister in six years had he been elected. So high was public confidence of a Labor victory, Australian online bookmaker Sportsbet paid out 1.3 million Australian dollars ($900,000) to bettors who backed Labor two days before the vote.

Source: Washington Post May 19, 2019 00:40 UTC