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Liberal Eric Hutchinson is yet to concede the seat of Lyons after a bigger-than-expected swing to the Labor Party in Tasmania looks to have ousted the three Liberals from the state's key marginal seats.

One person is in a critical condition after a house fire in the Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay this morning.

After a cliffhanger election, there have been a number of surprises and even some shock results in Queensland electorates.

A bigger-than-expected swing to the Labor Party in Tasmania removes the three Liberals from the state's key marginal seats.

Melbourne Greens MP Adam Bandt claims victory in the seat of Melbourne as the party sees a significant swing in the seat of Batman.

Former crayfisherman, Greg Cook, talks to Rod Quinn about Beachport, South Australia - the coastal town named in the 19th century after the then British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn.

Novak Djokovic's grand slam hopes have come to a sensational end with a shock third-round exit from Wimbledon.

Ex-premier who approved Sydney's supervised heroin injecting centre has called for the service to be broadened.

The state government has decided to preserve a public square from over-shadowing.

The Australian Electoral Commission has apologised for unusually long waits at polling stations across the country on Saturday.

Western Bulldogs forward Tom Boyd responded emphatically to his indefinite suspension by the club during the week, with four goals in Footscray's 12-point loss to Coburg at Piranha Park on Saturday.

As the underwhelming performance of the Coalition became clearer and clearer on Saturday night, the fingers of blame were being pointed with gusto in the Channel 7 studio – at Malcolm Turnbull.

Malcolm Turnbull is facing the worst kind of win, where the Coalition is returned with the most seats, but his authority is weakened, his internal critics are emboldened and his agenda is imperilled.

The safe Liberal seat of Grey in South Australia will go down to the wire as the Nick Xenophon Team gets within striking distance.

Former 3AW radio host Derryn Hinch is on track to win a prized seat in the federal senate after drawing a favourable first spot on the election ballot paper.

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For the past couple of weeks, a billboard has been driven around Wyatt Roy's electorate, showing a beaming Longman MP standing next to an equally effulgent Malcolm Turnbull, both in their bow-tie GQ Man of the Year best.

Labor's Queensland branch appears to have posed as Medicare to send messages to voters' phones on election day, urging them not to vote for the Coalition.

Cabinet Secretary and key Malcolm Turnbull confidante Arthur Sinodinos has suggested another election could be necessary if the government has been denied a mandate and Labor frustrates its agenda.

Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix on Saturday.

Militants shouting "Allahu Akbar" attacked an upscale cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, killing 20 people, mostly foreigners.

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Bill Shorten's future as leader of the Labor Party appeared secure as the party's better than expected performance pushed the election result towards a hung parliament on Saturday night.

It's the biggest night on the Australian political calendar but a Google search quirk is giving thousands of Australians the wrong information. 

You could have sworn the new prime minister of Australia had entered the room.

When the history of the game's most storied rivalry is recorded in the annals, little room will be roped off for the details of this encounter.

Labor is in danger of losing two of its traditional strongholds in Bill Shorten's home state, where the rise of the Greens and a bitter stoush over the CFA could help Malcolm Turnbull return to government.

Malcolm Turnbull's audacious double dissolution gamble looks to have backfired, raising the chances of another hung parliament, and the potential for turmoil in Coalition ranks.

In New South Wales, the ALP wins back the seats of Eden-Monaro, Macarthur and Macquarie with a swing of 3.5 per cent, while three more are considered retained due to boundary redistribution.

All Green eyes were on the Melbourne's inner north on Saturday night to see if the party could seize its second lower house seat following the party's biggest campaign to date. 

The decision by Jamie Soward this week to leave the Panthers and head off to England for the remainder of his playing career is one of the more selfless acts I have seen from a first-grade footballer.

Malcolm Turnbull hadn't yet won the election, but he was sure rolling like he had.

Labor is projected to return its sitting members in both of the ACT's electorates, with MP for Fenner Andrew Leigh and Member for Canberra Gai Brodtmann both securing comfortable majorities.

The safe Liberal seat of Grey in South Australia will go down to the wire as the Nick Xenophon Team gets within striking distance.

Labor's new pin-up boy Matt Keogh has won the plum new seat of Burt, in the south-east of Perth.

It has long been regarded as a Labor stronghold, and voters in the ACT delivered a very good night for the ALP.

For Malcolm Turnbull, the future is now supremely uncertain.

Labor has had a surprisingly strong showing in key western Sydney on Saturday night, claiming a key seat from the Liberals, tracking ahead in two others and holding off a pair of late serious challenges. 

Carlton coach Brendon Bolton fears defender Ciaran Byrne has torn his anterior cruciate ligament after being carted off the MCG in the final quarter of Saturday night's 12-point loss to Collingwood.

Voters have given the Turnbull government a strong message that he can't ignore.

Pauline Hanson says she is confident her One Nation party will pick up two Queensland seats in the Senate.

LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - Ryan Giggs is leaving Manchester United after 29 years at Old Trafford, the Premier League club said on Saturday.

The future of the ACT's senate representation is tipped to remain unchanged.

It's on the brink of becoming a mathematical impossibility, but Parramatta coach Brad Arthur has refused to concede the Eels' finals hopes are over.

Liberal MP Peter Dutton is expected to hold his seat of Dickson, while Wyatt Roy loses Longman to Labor's Susan Lamb.

Right-wing firebrand Andrew Bolt has called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to resign and accused him of being a disaster, leaving the Liberal Party in ruins and treating the conservative base "like dirt".

Liberal Sophie Mirabella fails in her bid to reclaim the regional Victorian seat of Indi from independent Cathy McGowan.