Australia election updates: Anthony Albanese emerges on top as Peter Dutton concedes

A former prime minister of Australia is adamant that Donald Trump’s influence has played a significant part in the Labor party increasing its majority and winning a second successive term in government.

That’s despite the conservative opposition leader, Peter Dutton, trying to downplay comparisons to the US president.

Dutton ran a “very Trumpian campaign”, and the US president was “the mood music that had a very big influence on how people perceived” the Liberal-National opposition, Turnbull told the BBC.