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Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. After 26 years in parliament and just six in government, Anthony Albanese has led Labor from the political wilderness and back into office. The Liberal Party suffered the biggest losses to independents, but Labor also lost a seat to independent Dai Le, who did not associate with the teal campaign. Ive tried to remember that any level of frustration, anxiety, disappointment or anger I was feeling about this taking forever, those asylum seekers were feeling at levels I couldnt even comprehend, she wrote. Braddon at this point is considered line ball, although Labor believes Lambie preferences will strengthen its position. Maybe they want to put their boots on instead of buying their seats with money, then they might know whats happening.. The JLN has done no deals unless they have done it in the last five hours since I went to bed just after midnight last night, which I doubt it, she told Sky News. After all, seafood is big business in Tasmania and big politics as well. Lambies support will be helpful to Archer, a Liberal moderate who holds Bass on a 0.4% margin. Credit: Museum of Australian Democracy Collection, Joe Lyons (R) also jumped ship from Labor to the conservatives, taking Hughes Nationalists with his supporters into the new United Australia Party. Always a maverick, the famously loquacious and controversial Bob Katter Jr had a family history of party-switching. I was in the room that day and I can tell you now what was said was intimidating. An army veteran herself, Lambie thinks national service would provide the kind of character building missing in a society of kids addicted to smartphone screens. Its 151 independents running around like mad chooks in a position where you go out each day and have a ballot for who the Prime Minister is, a ballot for who the Treasurer is, a new defence policy every day. She denied her move was revenge, saying she had spoken about her plans to target marginal left-leaning seats weeks ago. There was no need to do that because I already knew, quite clearly, if anything was said that deal would be off and all those people would be sitting on Nauru, she said.