Australian election 2025: Liberals left reeling after defeat

Peter Dutton has been ousted from parliament after Anthony Albanese's landslide win.

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Peter Dutton, the Liberal party leader, also lost his own seat of Dickson, which he had held for the past 24 years.

Labor's landslide victory means the Liberal party is now scrambling to find a new leader - and figure out what went wrong for them this election cycle.

Some Liberal party members have called for a "serious review", with one adviser summing up the loss as a failure of "the Dutton experiment".

Dutton has also become the first federal opposition leader to ever lose their own seat at the same time as losing an election, which means he has been ousted from parliament.