Federal election 2022 live: Albanese and Wong head to Quad meeting in Japan; Frydenberg concedes Kooyong to Monique Ryan

The ACT has provided its daily Covid update.

There have been 622 Covid cases recorded in the past 24 hours and no further deaths.

There are 91 people being treated in hospital with the virus including four people requiring ICU and two on ventilators.

The Northern Territory government has provided its daily Covid update.

There have been 153 new cases of Covid in the territory overnight and no further deaths. It brings active cases to 1,743.

There were 81 cases recorded in the Top End region, 23 in Central Australia, three in East Arnhem, 11 in the Big Rivers region, nine in the Barkly region and 26 are under investigation.

There are currently 17 patients in hospital including three requiring oxygen and one in intensive care.

ACT Senate hopeful and former rugby player, David Pocock, was just doorstopped as he came out of an interview in the Sky studios.

Three minutes after questioning him about what he would do on a number of subjects should his Senate bid prove successful, the progressive independent was asked the very important question of whether he would lace up his boots for the weekly politicians verses gallery members touch football.

After saying he “hadn’t laced on the boots in quite a while” he seemed to leave the door open to an appearance on the Senate oval.

Roughing up journalists might seem more appealing after he’s been subjected to a few more press conferences.

Paul Karp

Labor’s finance spokesperson and interim minister for women, Katy Gallagher, has spoken to reporters at Parliament House.

Gallagher was asked about the deputy Senate leadership, because Kristina Keneally’s unsuccessful move to contest a lower house seat leaves Labor with a gender balance problem: in the lower house, it is led by two men (Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles) and some argue another woman is needed to act as Penny Wong’s deputy in the Senate.

Gallagher said:

All of those are decisions for the caucus … Obviously gender equality is a big issue and Labor has had a very proud record, and Anthony has shown a lot of leadership on that. These are matters of the caucus to consider … at its first meeting.

The message we’re sending, and there was definitely a strong female vote on the weekend reflected in the candidates that have won seats and taken seats particularly from the government, the title of minister for women was reflected in the interim ministry today.

This is an area where you will see a big difference between the new government and the previous government – that’s how serious the prime minister is about it and making sure we send a strong message around the fact women are respected and will take their rightful place in parliament.

Ultimately, those are matters for Labor internally in our caucus processes.

It’s not a simple issue for Labor. Gallagher is from the left faction and if she took the post, three of the four leadership positions would be held by the left. The right’s Don Farrell is the most senior but is not a woman.

South Australia has provided today’s daily Covid update.

There have been 3,127 new cases overnight and no further deaths.

There are 238 people being treated in hospital with the virus including 10 in ICU and none requiring ventilation.

The Western Australia premier, Mark McGowan, has launched a blistering attack on members of the federal press gallery who followed Anthony Albanese’s election campaign, accusing them of “lies” and “intimidating and bullying” the new prime minister at press conferences.

McGowan, who joined Albanese for several media events in Perth during the six-week campaign, claimed he’d been left “shocked and appalled” by the behaviour of some in the Canberra-based media press pack, who attracted ongoing criticism from Labor supporters and some veteran journalists for combative questioning and interjections.

“Screaming and interrupting, and rude, and insulting, intimidating and bullying,” McGowan said at his own press conference in Perth on Monday:

The sort of thing in a workplace, you’d get sacked for. They need to reflect on their behaviour. I’ve never seen anything like it.

McGowan joined Albanese for one particularly robust media opportunity at a factory in Perth on the last weekend of the campaign, where the Labor leader came under repeated and loud questioning over his party’s election costings.

Journalists who felt Albanese was avoiding questions constantly interjected, demanding he answer more directly, before the then opposition leader ended the press conference after only a handful of questions.

Several reporters followed Albanese out of the area as he walked off, voicing further questions. McGowan, left standing at the podium, called the media behaviour “madness”.

On Monday, he reflected further on that encounter:

Anthony’s trying to answer a question and they’re basically talking over him and being rude, and then muttering and being insulting.

He hit out at subsequent reporting that Albanese had “fled” the press conference, calling it “lies”.

Frydenberg has now formally conceded the loss of his seat of Kooyong to independent challenger Monique Ryan.

“Today I rang Dr Monique Ryan to congratulate her on the election result in Kooyong and wished her well for the term ahead,” Frydenberg said in a statement, posted to Twitter on Monday afternoon.

“I now look forward to spending more time with my beautiful family,” he said.

Frydenberg, formerly tipped as a future Liberal leader, had resisted making a formal concession until today, noting it was still “mathematically” possible for him to retain Kooyong on the back of postal votes still to be counted.

“Every day I have given the job my all,” he said.

Ryan tweeted she had “just received a call from Mr Frydenberg” and that she would “be making a media statement shortly”.

Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg has conceded Kooyong to independent candidate Monique Ryan.

Ryan will make a media statement shortly.

Nick Evershed

Here is a really interesting chart from data reporter Nick Evershed, on the declining vote towards major parties. As the chart shows, this is a long running trend.

The chart shows the percentage of primary votes going to Labor and the Coalition in every election since 1949, with the most recent count from the 2022 election added at the end.

This shows the 2022 election result, with voters looking elsewhere besides the two major parties, is just the latest in a long-running trend:

In 1951, almost 98% of votes went to the two major parties. In the election just held, this number is currently down to an all-time low of 68.5%. This might change slightly as further results are counted, but it’s unlikely to shift too much.

Thanks to Ben Raue for the historical data for this chart, and you read more about the declining major party vote on his blog here.