Anthony Albanese claims a piece of history as scale of Labor victory stuns raucous crowd | Josh Butler

The prime minister is the first to be re-elected since John Howard – and becomes one of Labor’s biggest heroes

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It might have been the surprise packet of the night, but Labor picked up as early as January that it had a sniff in Dickson.

Early in the evening – hours before Anthony Albanese raised workers’ rights, housing, gender equality, childcare, the NDIS and Indigenous reconciliation as the priorities of his second-term Labor government – the hundreds-strong crowd at his election night party grew round-eyed as results from Dickson started pouring in on the television screens.