The Australian Labor Party appears set to return to office with an increased majority.
On Saturday evening numbers show a two-party preferred swing to Labor of over 4.6 per cent.
With 25 per cent of the vote counted, the Coalition primary vote was a disastrous 29.82 per cent, a stinging rebuke for Peter Dutton, whose campaign included a vow to remove the Aboriginal and Torres Strait flags from official press conferences and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The Opposition Leader also originally vowed to tackle "indoctrination" and the so-called "woke agenda" in schools and universities, before conceding late in the campaign his party had "no proposals" to actually change the curriculum.
Mr Dutton, who notoriously boycotted Kevin Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008, appears to have lost his own seat of Dickson in Queensland.
Federal Coalition spokesperson for Indigenous policy, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, had vowed to conduct a probe of Land Councils and Indigenous programs.
Labor's incumbent Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Malarndirri McCarthy, shared her top five priorities with National Indigenous Times recently - setting out an agenda focussed on job creation, closing the gap, housing, food security, and ranger programs to deliver employment and environmental protection.
More to come.
