Anthony Albanese finishes with his new favourite monologue:

I’m hoping to get the numbers in the Senator this time. We got 25 out of 76 in the Senate.

That’s just a fact. And what we’ll continue to do is to advance our agenda. And what happens is that – I discussed with the WA chamber of minerals and energy, I had discussions with environmental groups and my minister has been leading those discussions, we know that it is in the interests of both the environment and sustainability but also of industry to be a proper reform of an Act that is not fit for purpose. It’s been there since the Howard era.

Now we will deal with that in a second term, in an appropriate way. Can I make this point as well?

I note that Mr Dutton last night, one, refused to acknowledge that we inherited a deficit and turned that into a surplus. Secondly, he refused to find any answers for where his $600 billion that will be needed for his nuclear power plan will come from.

Where the cuts will come from.

Thirdly, I think questions from Mr Dutton today, is how is it the shambles that is the coalition have in New South Wales, members of the New South Wales Liberal Party, taking – taking the Liberal Party to court, seeking compensation because they couldn’t get their act together to put in nominations for the local government elections.

They’ve had to get rid of one candidate in Whitlam because as one of the Liberals described to me, he was a cooker, and he has been replaced by someone else with extraordinary comments as well.

Then you have the member for Leichhardt we may be having some contact with soon in that part of the world, has made the most extraordinary comments, we have Matt Smith in Leichhardt, a distinguished Cairns Taipans champion, someone who will be a fantastic member for Leichhardt.

Warren Entsch, whatever differences I’ve had with him, he’s been a pretty good local member and advocate for his community. His bloke, I don’t know where they’re getting these far-right candidates from, they’re popping up everywhere. In Western Australia, in South Australia, in New South Wales and now in Queensland.

So Albanese is on his way to Queensland.

Labor think they are still a slight chance in Leichhardt. The Courier Mail have run a story today with some of the LNP’s candidates old tweets, which include blaming feminists for Trump losing the 2020 election and just general Trump love in general. Which, in this campaign, is no longer seen as a positive.