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Editor's note
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Against the odds - and, notably, the polls - Scott Morrison has led the Coalition to a victory in the 2019 election. Votes are still being counted and we don’t yet know if they will form a majority or minority government.
But in any case, as Marija Taflaga writes, the victory has cemented Scott Morrison as a Liberal hero and will give him a great deal of power within his party room. The big question, though, given that they went into the election with a very modest set of policies, is how they will govern from here. What are their big ideas for Australia? What kind of government will this be?
Importantly, Taflaga says, the Coalition should not allow this unexpected triumph to be an excuse for complacency on their policy platform, or how they conduct debate within their parties.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Scott Morrison has pulled off an unexpected victory, and will forever be a Liberal hero.
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Marija Taflaga, Australian National University
The Coalition should not use this unexpected win to allow itself to be complacent and drift. It needs to work out its agenda for the next three years and how it allows internal debate.
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Bill Shorten with wife Chloe the day after his party’s electoral defeat.
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Geoffrey Robinson, Deakin University
Labor's defeat revives a familiar problem in Australian political history: the left's inability to show how its policies can improve people's material conditions.
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Against expectations, Scott Morrison has led the Coalition government back to power.
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Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
This result, which is vastly different from what opinion polls were indicating, shows the probability of "herding" in polls, and also emphasises that betting odds are to be treated with great caution.
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Morrison thanked the party faithful in his victory speech after an unexpected win.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The outcome is completely opposite to the polls, which all had Labor ahead going into the election, albeit narrowly and with some tightening during the campaign.
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Scott Morrison has been returned as prime minister, but we don’t yet know if the Coalition will get to the 77 seats it needs to form majority government (minus the speaker).
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Anne Twomey, University of Sydney
We now wait for the final count of seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate - and in the meantime, government continues.
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Our experts take a closer look at what’s in store for the country in five key policy areas: health, tax, education, infrastructure and the environment.
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Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Miranda Stewart, University of Melbourne; Peter Goss, Grattan Institute; Phillip O'Neill, Western Sydney University; Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute
Now that the Coalition has won the federal election, how will it meet its campaign promises on taxes, the environment, education, health and infrastructure?
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Tony Abbott, with wife Margie, concedes defeat in Warringah.
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Stewart Jackson, University of Sydney
The result in Warringah can be seen as being fought on local issues, where the former prime minister had come to be out of step with his constituents.
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Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation; Amanda Dunn, The Conversation; Shelley Hepworth, The Conversation
How did the numbers of election 2019 fall across the country? And what seats are still in play?
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