Australia Senate, Adam Bandt election results LIVE: Donald Trump fires off humiliating one-sentence comment about Peter Dutton

Donald Trump has admitted he has no idea who Peter Dutton is while praising Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for being ‘very nice’ to him.

Quizzed about the Australian election result outside the White House on Monday morning AEST, the US President said: ‘Albanese I’m very friendly with. I don’t know anything about the election… the man that won is very good.’

Asked about Albanese’s previous comments that Trump’s across-the-board 10 per cent tariffs were ‘not the act of a friend’, Trump said: ‘I can only say he’s been very, very nice to me, very respectful to me.

‘I have no idea who the other person is that ran against him.

‘We’ve had a very good relationship.’

Watch the exchange below.

Dutton has never met Trump – and is not particularly likely to after losing the election and his own seat on Saturday night.

A Daily Mail Australia-Ipsos poll carried out during the campaign found that voters saw the Coalition as narrowly better than Labor at handling Trump, 32 per cent to 29 per cent.

But a local backlash to Trump’s agenda is widely seen as a factor responsible for Dutton’s election wipeout.

She’s widely regarded as one of the most popular politicians in Australia but Jacqui Lambie faces an uncertain future.

Latest figures from the Australian Electoral Commission show Lambie has 0.47 of a quota, leading Falls on 0.43 and Hanson on 0.39.

Labor has secured at least two seats, the Liberals one and the Greens another. Liberal Richard Colbeck is ahead in the race for the fifth Senate seat.

But Lambie is in for a nailbiter.

The composition of the Senate often takes several days after federal elections to become clear.

Senior reporter Steve Jackson interviewed Lee Hanson – Pauline’s daughter – earlier in the campaign. Read the profile piece below.

A Teal candidate who waited eight days to report her husband missing after he went for a drunken, late-night swim is leading in the Labor-held seat of Fremantle.

Kate Hulett has a narrow 50.1 per cent to 49.9 per cent lead over incumbent Labor MP and Assistant Climate Change Minister Josh Wilson, and was leading by 196 votes after scoring a massive 17 per cent swing against Labor in the gentrified portside Perth electorate.

If the trend continues, with 79 per cent of the vote counted, Labor would lose a prized federal seat it has held continuously since 1934, with wartime prime minister John Curtin and Australia’s first female premier Carmen Lawrence among its high-profile former members.

More from economics reporter Stephen Johnson below.

Barnaby Joyce revealed last night that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Here’s what he had to say.

Australia’s richest person has urged the Liberal Party not to turn away from Trump-style policies and to use its ‘devastating’ federal election loss as a time to rebuild.

Gina Rinehart – a close supporter of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton – issued a lengthy statement on Monday.

Greens leader Adam Bandt fell behind his Labor rival Sarah Witty in the count for his seat of Melbourne on Sunday evening.

He was still lagging behind Witty as of 10.40am on Monday morning after counting resumed.

At the minute, Witty leads by an estimated 2,899 votes, with an extraordinary swing of 8.6 per cent to the ALP in the inner-city seat.

‘We are feeling confident in Melbourne,’ Bandt said. He stressed that he will not be conceding at this point.

But he has real reason to worry with two of his colleagues – Anthony Albanese’s nemesis Max Chandler-Mathers and Stephen Bates – defeated by Labor in their seats of Griffith and Brisbane respectively.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on the vote totals as the day’s counting unfolds. More details in this story below.

A prospective Liberal leadership hopeful has already been publicly knifed by a prominent former Coalition senator.

Holly Hughes, who until recently was a Liberal senator for NSW, told ABC Radio National that Angus Taylor is not capable of leading the party out of the political wilderness.

‘There’s a reason I won’t be voting for someone in the leadership ballot if they put their name forward,’ she said on Monday.

‘I have concerns about (Taylor’s) capability.

‘We’re in a massive cost of living crisis and [Treasurer] Jim Chalmers has basically skated through unscathed.

‘And I was receiving that feedback even from Labor MPs who were like, “Are you serious? What’s going on?”‘

Anonymous Liberal insiders heaped criticism on the party’s economic strategy this morning, arguing the Coalition failed to capitalise on the government’s superannuation and tax on unrealised gains policies.

Scott Morrison defeated Bill Shorten in 2019 with a relentless focus on Labor’s economic policies – which was Taylor’s remit.