We are wrapping up the live blog for today, Sunday 10 May, after a day focused on the fallout from the remarkable and tectonic result in the Farrer byelection.
Historic Result
The ABC's chief election analyst Casey Briggs noted that this is likely the first time in modern political history that the two-candidate final count in any federal electorate has been contested between two candidates not from a major political party – Labor, the Liberals, or the Nationals. The Guardian's Tom McIlroy highlighted that Farrer has sent either a Liberal or a National to Canberra at every election in its nearly 70-year existence. One Nation has now won a lower house seat for the first time.
Reactions and Fallout
Former opposition leader and outgoing Farrer MP Sussan Ley stated that "the voters never get it wrong" in the wake of a historically low combined Liberal and National vote in Farrer. Pauline Hanson accused major parties of having "disregarded and disrespected voters" and described her critics as "bitter". Liberal deputy Jane Hume admitted that voters had lost trust in the Coalition. Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson, a former strident critic of One Nation, was forced to confront the prospect of the Liberals directing further preferences or even seeking to govern in tandem with the rising right-wing populist party. He said the party needs to be "bigger, better, bolder". Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who has flagged an extra $2 billion for infrastructure in the budget, described Farrer as a "bloodbath" for the Coalition and stated that Labor remains the only party in the "sensible centre" of Australian politics.
