"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,

In 2002, a fresh-faced former policeman stood up in Canberra's Parliament House and introduced himself to the nation.

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,