US President Donald Trump says he is "very friendly" with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who was re-elected over the weekend in a landslide victory. "We have had a very good relationship," Trump told the Sydney Morning Herald at the White House on Sunday, in his first remarks about the Australian election.

Sky News host Chris Kenny says there was a third person in the federal election race and he “isn’t even an Australian citizen”.

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,