Final results could be days away - we have a reasonable chance of knowing who won in general terms in a couple of hours or so.
Nah, folks - it’s over.
Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.
- Edward Gibbon
From the Electoral Commission
At 8:23:51 PM
Coalition 37.
Labor 61.
Independent 1.
Unknown. 51.