Australian PM shrugs off questions on Donald Trump as different global leaders congratulate him

Anthony Albanese says his activity is to “represent Australia’s national interest” after his thumping election win, shrugging off questions on when he would possibly talk over with the United States to talk to Donald Trump about price lists and business.

The re-elected high minister mentioned he had spoken to the leaders of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, France and the United Kingdom, and regarded ahead to calls with the presidents of Indonesia and Ukraine.

“My job here is to represent Australia’s national interest and that’s what I’ll be doing, and the first thing I’ll be doing is going to Canberra,” he mentioned.

Trump forged an extended shadow over the opposition’s crusade, specifically after early Coalition insurance policies together with a “government efficiency” push and public provider cuts proved unpopular. The opposition chief, Peter Dutton, who misplaced his personal seat of Dickson, had intermittently flirted with Trump-style politics, as did the shadow minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, whose mid-campaign name to “make Australia great again” used to be observed as a decisive second via some within the Labor executive.

Albanese promised that Labor could be “a disciplined, orderly government” in its moment time period. Treasurer Jim Chalmers mentioned the federal government would use its larger parliamentary majority to deal with demanding situations in housing, the renewable power transition and boosting financial productiveness, and in rising technological problems together with synthetic intelligence.

The paintings for Labor started instantly after Saturday evening’s thumping win, with Albanese heading again to Canberra after a celebratory espresso and pastry in his Sydney citizens, and Chalmers receiving briefings from the Treasury early on Sunday.

The make-up of the Senate remains to be to be showed however Albanese is more likely to experience one of the modern parliaments in Australian historical past. The ALP nationwide president, Wayne Swan, mentioned it used to be a possibility for Albanese to “further reshape our nation as a prosperous, egalitarian and forward-looking society”, with some in Labor already pondering the dimensions of the win and the decimation of the Liberal birthday celebration as being a gap to fasten down the Treasury benches for many years yet to come.

“We’re not getting carried away with it,” Albanese mentioned in Leichhardt on Sunday morning. “We’ve got a big job to do. We thank the Australian people for having faith in us.

“I think we’ve been a good government but we’ve got a good, positive agenda, and that’s what Australian people voted for yesterday.”

The Australian Electoral Commission has Labor main in 73 seats, with an additional 9 most probably, and about 20 nonetheless in play. The ABC has known as 85 seats for Labor, with 18 nonetheless unsure. Labor may finally end up with 90 or extra, with the Coalition diminished to the low 40s.

The high minister, in his victory speech on Saturday evening, raised staff’ rights, housing, gender equality, childcare, the NDIS and Indigenous reconciliation because the priorities of his second-term executive.

“We will be a disciplined, orderly government in our second term as we have been in our first.”

On Sunday morning Albanese visited Bar Italia, a restaurant in his Grayndler citizens, in Sydney’s internal west, to have breakfast with a small staff of supporters and pals. Joined via the finance minister, Katy Gallagher, and the MP Jerome Laxale, who grew to become Bennelong from notionally Liberal seat to a secure Labor seat with a 60-40 margin, Albanese posed for selfies with different cafe consumers and scooped gelato into cones and cups for a couple of consumers.

He advised one patron that the election outcome used to be “humbling”, then joked that Labor had “scooped up more than a few” seats.

Chalmers mentioned the election outcome used to be “beyond even our most optimistic expectations”, pointing to surprising seats like Petrie now more likely to fall Labor’s manner. On the ABC’s Insiders, the treasurer mentioned Labor had to way its moment time period with “humility”, pointing to demanding situations together with the price of dwelling and housing disaster.

“We know that this second term has been given to us by the Australian people because they want stability in uncertain times, and not because they think we’ve solved every challenge in our economy or in our society more broadly, but because we’re better-placed to work towards solving some of those challenges,” he mentioned.

Chalmers mentioned Labor had an “ambitious” schedule to enforce however tempered expectancies for additional bolder reforms via cautioning that the federal government would now not keep an eye on the Senate.

“We have a big agenda,” he mentioned. “We’re looking forward to implementing it with confidence, with the confidence that comes from a big majority, a substantial majority.

“We have to build more homes. We’ve got to get this energy transformation right. We’ve got to do more to embrace technology, particularly the AI opportunity. There’s a huge agenda there for us.”

Chalmers mentioned he had won a briefing from the Treasury secretary, Steven Kennedy, at 6.45am and pointed to boosting productiveness within the financial system as the main function of his following couple of years.

“The first term was primarily inflation without forgetting productivity,” he mentioned. “The second term will be primarily productivity without forgetting inflation … And a much broader sense of [productivity].

“Human capital. Competition policy. Technology. Energy. The care economy. These are where we’re going to find the productivity gains – and not quickly, but over the medium term.”

The scale of Labor’s victory used to be now not publicly foreshadowed via any within the executive; certainly, a lot of Labor assets advised Guardian Australia that a number of seats, together with Hughes and Moore, had now not been on their radar. Another vital query is how the Liberal birthday celebration will rebuild after its reasonable wing used to be all however burnt up, with the birthday celebration now having little illustration in Australia’s main towns.

Swan, who used to be the treasurer beneath Kevin Rudd, known as the end result a “generational opportunity” for Labor and a “a moment to rejuvenate our party” with a extra various grassroots club.

“We need to capitalise by bringing more Australians – especially working Australians – into the ranks of our great party,” he mentioned. “Because the surest way to safeguard Labor’s achievements and its future work is to build an even stronger party, with deeper grassroots.

“Our Tory opponents are in a withered state but they will reorganise and return. Perhaps in even darker guise than we saw this election. We need to be ready for that.

“We must build a larger and more representative membership that can campaign throughout the cycle, not just at election time.”