Australia's centre-left Labor party won Saturday's federal election by a landslide, decimating the conservative Liberal-National Coalition while also gutting the left-leaning Greens. While the Greens got the highest vote in Melbourne, Bandt said the main reason for their loss was the preference votes for Liberal and the far-right One Nation party.

Greens leader Adam Bandt has officially conceded defeat in his long-held seat of Melbourne, clearing the way for the minor party to appoint a new federal captain.He is the second federal party leader to lose his seat at this election,

Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi has refused to concede that party leader Adam Bandt has lost his seat in the House of Representatives.