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Australia

150 seats, and Labor holds 94.

Key takeaways

  1. 1

    Parliament. Australian Labor Party holds the most seats: 94 of 150 (63%). A majority needs 76.

  2. 2

    Headlines. The tone is steady: 15% of the last 14 days' headlines read grim, 16% upbeat. Top topic: Politics (25%).

  3. 3

    Government. Government barometer 43/100 (Work-war risk). 0 of 2 moves on file read as smart, 0 as harmful.

Headline mood · 14 days

Line: mood · bars: stories

12 Nov · 8 stories · neutral1 upbeat · 6 neutral · 1 grim

What the headlines are about

  • Other 32%
  • Politics 25%
  • Economy 18%
  • Security 13%
  • Society 7%
  • Climate 5%

A simple word-list estimate from the daily wire headlines. Not a judgement.

Who holds the seats · House of Representatives

150 seats · 76 for a majority (line)

Australian Labor Party

94 seats · 62.7% · a majority alone

94 on the Parliamentary Education Office House numbers, as at 28 May 2026. The Australian Electoral Commission’s final national first-preference table, updated 10 June 2025, lists the Australian Labor Party at 34.56 percent. The Roy Morgan note of 21 September 2026 prints Labor primary support at 25 percent for 14–20 September.

Map · mood compared

Australia

Overall mood: 15% grim, 16% upbeat · today +0

What changed today

12 Nov

  • 12 Nov: 8 stories (average 8); tone as usual.

New headlines

3 more headlines
Earlier this week: 10 more headlines

Headlines and summaries come from the linked sources; the selection is automatic.

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Parties, people, promises, money

Chamber · 28 May 2026 · first preferences updated 10 Jun 2025

150 seats, and Labor holds 94.

The seat map is the Parliamentary Education Office House of Representatives current numbers, as at 28 May 2026. It lists the Australian Labor Party at 94, the Liberal Party of Australia at 17, the Liberal National Party of Queensland at 16, and The Nationals at 8. It also lists the Australian Greens at 1, Centre Alliance at 1, Katter's Australian Party at 1, One Nation at 2, and Independents at 10. Those rows sum to 150. A majority of 150 is 76. Labor has 94, so it has a majority on its own. Vote shares are the Australian Electoral Commission’s final national first-preference table, updated 10 June 2025, not a figure on the later seat page. The two counts are not the same snapshot.

A score on this desk is an editorial average of six work topics, times ten, with the method written on the row.

The room

House of Representatives

150 seats · 76 to govern · House numbers 28 May 2026 · Labor 94

The deal

Labor majority

76 seats would be a majority of 150. The Australian Labor Party has 94 on the House numbers page as at 28 May 2026. That 94 is drawn as the government line, not as a sum of partner parties. The ministry page does not name a partner party.

The mood

Election vs now

The left bar is the share of first-preference votes on the final table updated 10 June 2025. The right bar is seats divided by 150. They are different counts.

  • Labor
    25.0%
  • Liberal
    19.5%
  • LNP
    0.0%
  • Independent
    0.0%
  • Nationals
    2.0%
  • One Nation
    25.5%
  • Greens
    15.5%
  • Centre
    0.0%
  • Katter
    0.0%

The first point is the national first-preference share on the final table updated 10 June 2025. The later points are Roy Morgan primary-vote figures, a weekly sample, not the same question as votes cast. The 7 September 2026 note covers 31 August to 6 September and prints Labor 27, One Nation 26.5, Liberals 17, Nationals 4.5, and Greens 14.5. The 21 September note covers 14–20 September and prints One Nation 25.5, Labor 25, Liberals 19.5, Nationals 2, and Greens 15.5. Queensland’s Liberal National Party is not printed on its own in those notes, so that later bar is empty.

The trend

From election night to now

Public pollster blend — not a forecast

The split

Seat share beside the 2025 first preferences

The right bar is seats divided by 150. The left bar is the national first-preference share. The later seat page and the vote table are different counts.

The mismatch

Seats they hold vs the poll

The seat bar is the 28 May 2026 headcount, divided by 150. The other bar is the Roy Morgan primary figure in the 21 September 2026 note, where that party was named on its own. An empty bar means that note did not name the party on its own.

The faces

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The Prime Minister already has a Commons portrait. The other ministers, the Speaker, and the Leader of the Opposition are on the people list without a new picture.

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The rude gauge

Growth king or a fight with work

Who grows the pie, who picks a fight with work. Cabinet sits at 43 / 100. The number is an editorial reading, not an official index. Six topics are averaged and multiplied by ten: energy supply, hiring, keeping and investing money, building, hours in paid work, and paperwork. Ten means the public record makes that easier for work. Zero means it makes it harder. A row with no cited party and no personal statute stays at the middle and is labelled not scored. The band is a label for that average, not a court ruling.

Against the workWork-war riskGrowth king

Full causal chains live on every promise

This week

The pulse

Chamber

House headcount

Labor 94 of 150. Opposition 41. Independents 10.

Office

Opposition

The parliamentarian page lists Angus Taylor as Leader of the Opposition from 13 February 2026.

Politics 101

How this country actually works

What this chamber drawing is

150 seats. 76 to govern. Labor has 94.

Counts are the Parliamentary Education Office House of Representatives current numbers, as at 28 May 2026. The rows sum to 150. 76 is half of 150, rounded up. Vote shares are the Australian Electoral Commission’s final national first-preference table, updated 10 June 2025. That table and the later seat page are different counts. The election-night seat table on the tally room does not match every later row.

Who holds the offices this desk names

Albanese, Prime Minister. Dick, Speaker. Taylor, Opposition.

The Prime Minister page names Anthony Albanese, sworn in on 23 May 2022. The ministry page names the ministers and does not print a party. The Speaker page names Milton Dick. His parliamentarian page prints Australian Labor Party. The parliamentarian page for Angus Taylor names him as Leader of the Opposition from 13 February 2026.

Elections

What is on the calendar

National elections and the major votes on these desks, for about the next 24 months. The date comes from the election authority. A poll appears only when a named pollster published it in the last 60 days.

Australian federal election

Expected

Expected by May 2028

No polling day is set. The Parliamentary Library's latest date for a House and half-Senate election together is 20 May 2028.

Date source: Parliamentary Library of Australia

How foreigners are seen

Openness in Australia

Published surveys only. Each figure shows its source and year.

Who's welcomed

Share of adults in Australia with a favourable opinion of each country Pew asked about. A view of a country, not of its people.

Welcoming index

Derived from the two published measures below, not a survey result. Each input keeps its own year.

76.8/100

Mean of Gallup 7.98 of 9 (2016), rescaled to 88.7, and MIPEX 65 of 100 (2019).

The measures behind it (shown separately)

What expats say

InterNations Expat Insider 2025: rank out of 46 destinations, 1 is best.

  • Ease of settling in22 of 46
  • Culture and welcome23 of 46
  • Local friendliness22 of 46
  • Finding friends23 of 46

InterNations, Expat Insider 2025

All desks side by side

Pick a measure. Countries without a published figure show Unknown and sit at the end; they are not counted in the average.

Average of the 20 of 22 desks with a figure: 63.3 of 100. Unknown left out: Georgia, Thailand.

  1. Canada85.72024
  2. United States80.72020
  3. Portugal78.42023
  4. Australiathis desk76.82019
  5. Spain73.32024
  6. Ireland72.52023
  7. Netherlands69.92023
  8. Switzerland65.12019
  9. Italy65.12023
  10. United Kingdom64.72020
  11. Germany64.62023
  12. South Korea64.12020
  13. France63.62024
  14. Japan59.22019
  15. Mexico51.92019
  16. Malta51.52024
  17. Cyprus50.62024
  18. United Arab Emirates46.72019
  19. Greece43.12024
  20. Estonia38.72024
  21. GeorgiaUnknownMIPEX does not cover this country, so the index cannot be built.
  22. ThailandUnknownMIPEX does not cover this country, so the index cannot be built.

In plain words

  • Expats ranked Australia 22 of 46 for ease of settling in (2025); its best sub-score was local friendliness at 22.
  • Of the 3 countries Pew asked about here, United States drew the most favourable opinions (29%, 2025).
  • Favourable opinions of United States went from 47% in 2021 to 29% in 2025 (Pew).

Sources and method are listed under “How we source this” at the bottom of the page.

What it means for you

What it means for you

Only figures with a source and a date. Each source is listed under “How we source this” at the bottom of the page. Anything not listed here is not on file.

  • Work

    From 1 July 2026 the Fair Work Commission says the national minimum wage is 1004.90 dollars for a week of 38 ordinary hours, which is 26.44 dollars an hour. That is the base rate for adult employees in the national system who are award-free and agreement-free.

  • Work

    The same Fair Work Commission page sets a casual loading of 25 percent on top of the national minimum wage for casual employees who are award-free and agreement-free.

  • Taxes

    The compilation of A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 in force on 1 January 2026 says the amount of GST on a taxable supply is 10 percent of the value of the taxable supply.

  • Benefits

    The Services Australia how-much page prints a single Age Pension maximum total of 1,237.70 dollars a fortnight. That total is a basic rate of 1,135.40, a pension supplement of 88.20, and an energy supplement of 14.10. The page says the Department of Social Services adjusts these rates every 20 March and 20 September.

Sources, licences and image credits

Data

  • Wire (public RSS feeds): X, Guardian Australia, ABC News.
  • The left bar is the share of first-preference votes on the final table updated 10 June 2025. The right bar is seats divided by 150. They are different counts.
  • Editorial economic-competence gauge, not a court and not a Nobel. Six axes: energy, hiring, capital, building, hours in work, red tape. Scores are a judgement from public records of this term and the last — not a bribery charge, not a voting recommendation.

Survey sources

  • Australia — Gallup Migrant Acceptance Index 2016: Gallup. Neli Esipova, Julie Ray and Anita Pugliese, “Migrant Acceptance in Canada, U.S. Follows Political Lines”, Gallup, 26 April 2018. The top-ten table lists Australia at 7.98. The survey-methods note says the index was asked in 138 countries in 2016 and in the United States and Canada in 2017, so the Australia year used here is 2016. A later Australia score was not on that page. Source. Gallup allows a contextual citation when the publication date and a link are given. The table and graphics are not reproduced.
  • Australia — MIPEX overall score 2019: MIPEX. Migrant Integration Policy Index, Australia country page, headed 2019. “scoring 65 on the MIPEX 100-point scale (the MIPEX 56 average is 49).” Source. The overall score is cited from the country page. The report is not reproduced.

Image credits

  • Australian Labor Party mark — Australian Labor Party · Public domain Source
  • Liberal Party of Australia mark — Liberal Party of Australia · Public domain Source
  • Liberal National Party of Queensland mark — Copelonian · CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
  • Geometric mark for The Nationals, not a party logo — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
  • Australian Greens mark — Australian Greens · CC BY-SA 2.5 au Source
  • Centre Alliance mark — Centre Alliance · Public domain Source
  • Katter's Australian Party mark — Katter's Australian Party · CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
  • Pauline Hanson's One Nation mark — LeoC12 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
  • Geometric mark for independent members, not a party logo — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
  • Flag of Australia — Wikimedia Commons contributors · Public domain Source
  • Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister — David Foote (AUSPIC/Department of Parliamentary Services) · CC BY 4.0 Source
Questions the desk actually answers

FAQ

Questions the desk actually answers

Is the Australia desk live on Nation Runner?
Yes. It draws the House of Representatives numbers as at 28 May 2026, the final first-preference table updated 10 June 2025, and the Prime Minister, Speaker, and Leader of the Opposition named on official pages. It is an editorial dashboard, not an official record.
Which culture figures does the Australia desk show?
Gallup’s Migrant Acceptance Index for Australia in 2016 (7.98 out of 9) and the Migrant Integration Policy Index score of 65, with 2019 printed beside that score. The Pew Spring 2025 row already on the perceptions page is cited there.
Does the money tab score Australian political financing?
No. Zeros mean the access scale is not filled. A zero is not a finding that a party has no donors.
How we source this

Seats: Parliamentary Education Office, 28 May 2026. Votes: Australian Electoral Commission first preferences, updated 10 June 2025. Ballot support: Roy Morgan, notes of 7 September and 21 September 2026. Offices: Prime Minister page, the ministry page, the Speaker page, and the parliamentarian pages. Culture: Gallup 2016 and the Migrant Integration Policy Index headed 2019.

How foreigners are seen

Pew asks adults for their opinion of a country. That is a view of the country, not of its people or of any visitor. We never estimate a pair that was not asked; it shows as unknown.

InterNations ranks come from expats living in the country (46 destinations in 2025). Gallup's Migrant Acceptance Index runs from 0 to 9. MIPEX scores integration law and policy from 0 to 100.

Welcoming index: the mean of the Gallup index rescaled to 0–100 (score ÷ 9 × 100) and the MIPEX overall score, rounded to one decimal. It is derived, not a survey result, and the two inputs come from different years. If either input is missing the index is unknown: it is not estimated, it sorts last and it is left out of the average.

What it means for you

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