"But there is one thing for sure - the Labor Party is back." "It is a very, very close count," Turnbull told the party faithful at coalition headquarters in Sydney after Shorten spoke. "Friends, we will not know the outcome of this election tonight, indeed, we may not know it for some days to come," a jubilant Bill Shorten, leader of the opposition Labor Party, told supporters in Melbourne just before midnight. "There's only been one of me in 226 seats; there'll be at least four of us and that'll be huge." Turnbull had said a vote for the coalition was a vote for political stability, invoking the global economic and political fallout from Britain's decision to leave the European Union.

Source: dna July 02, 2016 18:44 UTC