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.
