"It's not our night," Australia's opposition leader Peter Dutton told a roomful of supporters in Brisbane after his rival, Anthony Albanese, was re-elected as prime minister. It was indeed a bruising night for Dutton,

Former policeman Peter Dutton, the rival for the Australian prime minister's job in Saturday's election, is a self-professed sceptic of the rush to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. "The renewables-only energy policy is a wrecking ball through the economy and it's driving up the cost of food,

Peter Dutton of the Liberal party conceded defeat in Saturday's election, handing a second term to the governing Labor party.