00:00An orange army on the cusp of a huge upset.
00:09Look at what we have done. First go.
00:15Jessie Price's supporters wasted no time celebrating her performance. Expectations
00:21exceeded with the final result hanging in the balance, today attracting plenty of public
00:26attention.
00:27Thank you, thank you. Something there'll be more of in the days ahead.
00:33I think I do feel very cautiously optimistic. We'll see what happens. I don't want to be
00:38premature about anything but I do know from being out and about and being there is such
00:42a mood for change.
00:44Voters giving a range of accounts for her breakthrough.
00:47Perhaps there's been a defection from the Liberals but from people who don't want to
00:52vote Labor so they've gone to the independents.
00:55Both Labor and the Liberals have been losing their connection with the people.
01:01For Labor, the enthusiasm at an historic landslide was tempered by the precarious situation facing
01:13BNMP David Smith. Still, there was time for a few pointed remarks.
01:18We've ensured that Peter Dutton gets to work from home on Monday.
01:24The Australian people have rejected the Liberal Party's public service cuts.
01:30Both Andrew Lee and Canberra MP Alicia Payne were comfortably returned, as was Junior Minister
01:37Christy McBain in Eden-Monaro and former Nationals leader Michael McCormack in Riverina.
01:42But the most emphatic result belonged to Senator David Pocock. His vote doubled, a feat he puts
01:49down to a vision not widely shared by other parties' campaigns.
01:54A lot of it was pretty short-term, what can we give people to try and get re-elected rather
02:00than what's our long-term future.
02:02It's left Labor short of a quota for an ACT Senate seat for the first time ever.
02:08Katie Gallagher expected to get over the line on preferences. Meanwhile, Canberra's long-suffering
02:15Liberals were left disappointed once again. There was lots of Liberals who were embarrassed
02:21by the position that Dutton took with regard to the ACT and simply didn't want to be seen
02:27to be supportive of that approach. An approach which has kept the party in the political wilderness.
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