Sixteen seats in the House of Representatives still in doubt

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Vote counting is continuing in 16 seats with very tight races in the Melbourne electorates of Goldstein and Kooyong. While in the senate race, the Nationals deputy leader is set to lose her seat.

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00:00One of the most consequential results that we've got a recent update on is the seat of

00:06Melbourne, and that is the seat of course owned by Adam Bant, the Greens leader.

00:13It is a very tight contest and there has been a swing away from the Greens of about 8.7%,

00:20but I can bring you an update recently from Anthony Green.

00:23He says that the AEC is now releasing preference counts between the Greens and Labor in Melbourne,

00:29and at this stage preferences are flowing 75% to Labor and 25% to the Greens.

00:35So it is concerning for Adam Bant, but it's not over yet.

00:39He, last we heard from him, said that he remains confident.

00:44It hasn't been a great result for the Greens in the House of Representatives.

00:47They've already lost two seats.

00:49One, a third is still unknown, and then of course there's Adam Bant's seat of Melbourne.

00:54So some really interesting things to watch there for the rest of the day.

00:59We also, of course, are still waiting on news in the seat of Monash, in Fremantle, Goldstein,

01:05Zoe Daniels' seat, the Independent there, we still don't know about that.

01:09And the seat of Cooyong as well.

01:11So some really close races where preferences are being counted and recounted at the moment.

01:16And as you say, the Senate, the Nationals Deputy Leader Perrin Davey says that she's shattered

01:21to find that she will likely lose her Senate seat, and she's putting the blame squarely

01:27on the Liberal Party.

01:28The Nationals and Liberal Party ran a joint Senate ticket in New South Wales this year,

01:33and she says that the Liberals' unpopularity is to blame for what could be the result for

01:37her.

01:38And who are the frontrunners in the race for a new Liberal leader?

01:43Well the Shadow Treasurer, Angus Taylor, seems to be the most popular name.

01:47The Shadow Immigration Minister, Dan Tehan, and of course the Deputy Leader, Susan Lee.

01:53And that is, there was a fourth, and that was Andrew Hastie, the Shadow Defence Minister,

01:58but we heard late yesterday that he wouldn't put his name forward.

02:02So the party has to do a bit of soul searching, as we've been saying, and consider whether

02:08or not it moves more to the right, or whether it moves to the centre, and there have been

02:13certainly quite a few Liberal MPs and Senators, publicly and privately, who have been talking

02:20about the need, they believe, for the party to move to the centre.

02:24We've also heard today from Penny Wong, the Foreign Minister.

02:28She was out talking this morning about what she thought went wrong for the Liberal Party

02:32on Saturday night.

02:34I think if you look at the metropolitan electorates around the country, overwhelmingly, you know,

02:46Australians who live in cities and suburbs looked at the Liberal Party and said, you don't represent

02:51my aspirations. You don't reflect the things I'm worried about. You know, you don't reflect

02:57where I want to go. And, you know, that is the clear message from the election.

03:02There's also been a lot of talk today about women and the Liberal Party, talk about the

03:09fact that in 2022 there was a review, there was discussion of gender quotas to try and get

03:14more women into the party. It's been rejected as an idea that's not a Liberal idea, but we've

03:21had lots of Liberal women, publicly and privately, and even some Liberal men as well, former MPs

03:27and Senators, saying that gender quotas really need to be considered if the party is to get

03:33more women, essentially, on board.

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