Australian news and politics live: Anthony Albanese reveals what Donald Trump said in post-election call

“I want a federal EPA that supports industry, but also supports sustainability and I think that can be achieved,” Mr Albanese said when asked about his main focus now he has won another term.

“I think that can be achieved and that’s my objective.”

“We have other agenda, some of it held up on housing. We have an ambitious challenge to build housing. I note both the coalition and the Greens’ housing spokespeople won’t be in the Parliament.

“I think part of the reason why they’re not in the Parliament is they held up public housing, they held up emergency housing for women and children escaping violence.

“They held up our build to rent scheme and they held up our help to buy scheme.

“I say this message to the Senate and members of the House of Representatives - We have a clear mandate to build more housing and the key is supply.

“You know, get out of the way and let the private sector build it. That is going to be one of my priorities.”

Anthony Albanese said he has been on the phone with US President Donald Trump this morning and was greeted in a very receptive manner after his resounding election win.

“I had a warm and positive conversation with President Donald Trump, just a short while ago when I was at the Lodge,” Mr Albanese said.

“I thanked him for his very warm message of congratulations.

“We talked about how AUKUS and tariffs will continue to engage, we’ll engage with each other on a face-to-face basis at some time in the future.

“But it was very warm and I thank him for reaching out in such a positive way as well.”

“It was a very warm discussion about the friendship between our two nations that’s so important.”

Mr Albanese told reporters that he had multiple conversations with Mr Trump.

“I had three conversations with the president. I won’t go into all of the personal comments that he made.

“But it was very generous in his personal warmth and praise towards myself. He was fully aware of the outcome and he expressed the desire to continue to work with me in the future.”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has spent the morning fielding calls from world leaders and gave an insight into some of his movements in coming months.

“I do want to thank as well the world leaders who have passed on their congratulations, both those who have done that through the various social media forms that exist these days and those who have texted me,” Mr Albanese said.

“But also past leaders as well, you know, friends like Tony Blair and Matteo Renzi, who I met and developed relationships with over the years.

“This morning and yesterday I have spoken with a number of leaders.

“I have spoken with Prime Minister Marape, President Prabowo of Indonesia, President Zelensky of Ukraine, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Prime Minister Mark Carney, who invited me to attend the G7 in Canada in June, and I have accepted that invitation and President Donald Trump of the United States.”

Anthony Albanese is speaking to gathered media in Canberra for the first time since his resounding victory in the Federal election.

“Today, we continue the work of continuing to build Australia’s future,” Mr Albanese said.

“I promised to be a prime minister for all Australians, those who voted Labor, and those who didn’t and hope to earn the trust of the Australian people on an ongoing basis.

“We are deeply humbled by the result on Saturday and we don’t take a second of it for granted. The hard work will continue today.

“My government has been an orderly government, we have worked hard, we’ve had effective ministers but also an effective caucus and we’ve engaged in a way that’s clear, that’s forward looking.

“That made not just a case that we had been a good government, in getting inflation down, wages up, interest rates starting to fall, employment growing, we also had an effective offer going forward as well and that resonated with people.”

The Liberal Party should elect Goldstein candidate Tim Wilson leader if he wins the ultra-marginal Melbourne seat, former MP and NSW party president Jason Falinski says.

Mr Falinski feels Mr Wilson, who trails independent MP Zoe Daniel by 95 votes, would help win back inner-city voters who deserted the Coalition in the election, a group he referred to as a “tribe” with more in common with residents of London or New York that the Australian suburbs.

The 45-year-old Mr Wilson, who is married, would be the first openly gay leader of a major Australian political party. He was a parliamentary secretary for energy for the last seven months of the Morrison government.

“I think that he is someone who should be under serious consideration for the leadership, and if not then a very senior role in the Coalition’s ranks,” Mr Falinski told the Beyond Politics podcast.

“What the Liberal Party has shown over a number of election cycles, going back to the John Howard era, to be quite frank, is an inability to actually communicate to those people or offer those tribes something that they would be interested in voting for.

“And the result of that is that we are now locked out of almost every major city in Australia. So Tim Wilson at this election is the one person who demonstrated that there is a pathway for the Liberal Party to appeal to those tribes.”

Mr Wilson has not commented on the count, although on Sunday posted a meme on X of television soccer coach Ted Lasso pointing to a changeroom sign that says “Believe”.

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The chief executive of Westpac has described Labor’s clear majority as a “really significant positive” at a time of global uncertainty.

Anthony Miller, speaking to analysts and reporters after announcing a first-half profit of $3.45 billion, said: “The certainty that the Labor Party has provided over the last couple of years in government — and now re-elected — is an incredibly powerful outcome and a very good one for the country.”

“Congratulations to the Prime Minister and to the Labor team on that pretty comprehensive win on the weekend,” Mr Miller said.

“I definitely think there’s a really significant positive for Australia as a result of that election victory, in the sense that the continuity, the consistency, the certainty that that re-election delivers is quite profound.

“It certainly sets us up — and sets us apart — from many other countries around the world, given the uncertainty, the inconsistency, and the volatility that we see. I think it’s an enormous positive for the country.”

Mr Miller added that future policy efforts should focus on working “methodically” on solutions rather than “boldly going in different and new directions.”

US President Donald Trump says he is “very friendly” with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, speaking about the leader for the first time since Saturday’s landslide win for Labor.

“Albanese, I’m very friendly with,” he told the ​SMH​.

“I don’t know anything about the election other than the man that won, he’s very good.”

The US President didn’t help former Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s cause, saying he had “no idea” who he was.

“I have no idea who the other person is that ran against him, and, you know, we (Mr Albanese and Mr Trump) have had a very good relationship.”

In an interview with ABC RN, outgoing Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes also said she has “concerns” about Angus Taylor’s “capabilities”, voicing her opinion that he should not put his hand up to become leader of the Opposition.

“To be the opposition leader, you need to be very capable in the media. You need to be able to sell a message. You need to be able to put the narrative together, and you need to be able to bring the team together,” she said.

“I have concerns about his capabilities, but that is shared by a huge number of my colleagues, and frustration that they didn’t have economic narratives that they could push and sell during the election.

“Going from shadow treasurer to opposition leader, I’m not quite sure that’s going to change.”

Outgoing Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes has slammed opposition Treasury spokesperson Angus Taylor, claiming his “economic narrative” is part reason for the Coalitions loss in the election.

“It all boils down to the fact that there was just no policy for anyone to sell, there was no economic narrative. There was nothing for people to go out and talk about, and that just became increasingly prevalent throughout the campaign,” Senator Hughes told Sky News.

“We’re still waiting to see who’s going to officially put their hand up, but I know who I won’t be supporting,” she said, raising issue with Mr Taylor.

“When you were supposed to be putting together tax policies, when you were supposed to be delivering that sort of messaging for the Coalition … As a shadow (minister) who submitted seven costed policies last October and then never heard anything back — and I know from other colleagues in the shadow ministry that was occurring — there’s certain people that I think need to do a lot of reflection themselves on what their role was in this loss.

“Perhaps putting your hand up for the leadership is not exactly where your strength lies.

“As someone who’s leaving politics in a couple of months, blessings can show themselves in very different ways, because I don’t think it’s going to be a great place to sit for the next three, potentially six years.”

Since Anthony Albanese was re-elected, world leaders have been quick to congratulate the Prime Minister.

However, congratulations from the US have come not from President Donald Trump, instead from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Asked on Monday if this was a concern, Deputy PM Richard Marles said, “no”.

“The relationship with the United States is profoundly important,” he told Sunrise.

“The alliance remains the cornerstone of our strategic and foreign policy.

“We have said consistently, we feel a sense of confidence about being able to manage that relationship with President Trump.

“But it is most definitely a priority in terms of what we do in re-engaging in the world after having been involved in the election campaign.

“What happens is when you do have an election campaign, we kind of leave you alone for a bit, to give you the space to do that.”