"It's not our night," Australia's opposition leader Peter Dutton told a roomful of supporters in Brisbane after his rival, Anthony Albanese, was re-elected as prime minister. It was indeed a bruising night for Dutton,

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. Tonight is not the night that we wanted for the Liberal Party, for our Coalition or – indeed – for our country. But we worked hard every day over the

Mr Albanese was first elected as a member of parliament when he won the seat of Grayndler in 1996. It's a seat he's now held for nearly 30 years. You can watch his 2025 federal election victory speech in full here. Peter Dutton is the biggest name to lose his seat — a seat he'd held since 2001.