Australian PM vows 'orderly' government

SCALE OF ALBANESE'S WIN TAKES HIS OWN PARTY BY SURPRISE

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Australia's left-leaning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese basked yesterday in his landslide election win, promising a “disciplined, orderly” government to confront cost-of-living pain and tariff turmoil.

Residents clapped as the 62-year-old and his fiancee Jodie Haydon visited his old inner Sydney haunt, Cafe Italia, surrounded by a crowd of jostling photographers and TV journalists.

Albanese's Labor Party is on course to win at least 82 seats in the 150-member parliament, partial results showed.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton's conservative Liberal-National coalition had just 36 seats, and other parties 12. Another 20 seats were still in doubt.

"We will be a disciplined, orderly government in our second term," Albanese said, after scooping ice cream for journalists in a cafe he used to visit with his mum.