Afrikaans
Akan
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bemba
Bengali
Bihari
Bosnian
Breton
Bulgarian
Cambodian
Catalan
Cebuano
Cherokee
Chichewa
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Ewe
Faroese
Filipino
Finnish
Frisian
Ga
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Guarani
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Interlingua
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
Kongo
Korean
Krio (Sierra Leone)
Kurdish
Kurdish (Soranî)
Kyrgyz
Laothian
Latin
Latvian
Lingala
Lithuanian
Lozi
Luganda
Luo
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mauritian Creole
Moldavian
Mongolian
Myanmar (Burmese)
Montenegrin
Nepali
Nigerian Pidgin
Northern Sotho
Norwegian
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Occitan
Oriya
Oromo
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Punjabi
Quechua
Romanian
Romansh
Runyakitara
Russian
Samoan
Scots Gaelic
Serbian
Serbo-Croatian
Sesotho
Setswana
Seychellois Creole
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhalese
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Spanish (Latin American)
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Tigrinya
Tonga
Tshiluba
Tumbuka
Turkish
Turkmen
Twi
Uighur
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
- Look, if you're not going to tell me who you are...
I'm watching you
and your bastard son.
♪♪
[Flames crackling] - There's a guy online
that's getting more and more violent.
He calls himself Bait15.
- Eddie, watch out!
[Suspenseful music plays]
- Someone made an anonymous complaint about Eddie.
Now, Child Protection are down on me.
- It was called in by a member of Jack Ramsay's staff.
- Ramsay made the complaint?
- And you're wondering
if I've got anything to do with that?
- What dirt do we have on Ramsay?
- Why are we looking for dirt?
- We made a promise to this electorate
not to do this.
We all signed it.
- Damien's sandbagging.
He can't lose a single seat,
and he can feel mine slipping away.
- They're stacking the branch. They are trying
to pressure me out. - Oh, the bastards.
- Crucial to this electorate... - Did you get your staffer pregnant
and then sack her?
- This stunt is an insult
to the good people of this electorate!
- Why don't you sit down?
- I saw what happened in there.
I've never been more ashamed of you.
♪♪
[Truck speeding]
♪♪
♪♪
- [Sobbing, pounding steering wheel]
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[Seatbelt clicks, whirs, thuds]
♪♪
♪♪
[Continues sobbing] Eddie.
♪♪
Eddie!
♪♪
Eddie!
♪♪
[Crickets chirping]
♪♪
- [Grunts]
♪♪
[Sigh] [Alert chimes]
♪♪
[Sigh]
♪♪
[Sigh]
[Door closes]
- It's 6:00 am as the nation prepares to go to the polls.
With the real possibility of a hung parliament,
attention has turned to the rise
of independent candidates across the country,
who could end up holding the balance of power.
Alex Irving, the controversial former senator from Queensland,
is one of those independents.
Irving has run a surprising campaign,
leading voter enrollment drives in the electorate's prisons
and amongst other marginalized communities.
And her job has been made easier
as a string of sexual harassment allegations
has forced the sitting member, Jack Ramsay,
into damage control.
While this may not be enough to swing that seat,
there's no question that both the government
and the opposition have been left behind
in what could be a seismic shift in Australian politics.
- Hello, Alex. - Hey.
- You don't win today, it's got to be rigged.
- Blame the Russian mob, eh? - Yeah.
♪♪
[Camera shutter clicks]
♪♪
[Insects buzzing]
[Creature caws]
♪♪
♪♪
- Hey, Mum.
[Sigh]
♪♪
- Dad! Dad!
♪♪
- I miss you, Mum.
♪♪
♪♪
[Door slams]
♪♪
[Gate creaking]
- Eh, thought you'd done a runner.
- Just clearing my head.
- Meeting in the lounge in 15?
- Charlie talking to you?
- [Chuckling] Nah. You?
[Musical ringtone] - I'm just going to check on Eddie.
[Door creaking] - Alex Irving's office.
Joely McKinnon speaking.
[Door slams]
♪♪
[Indistinct conversations]
♪♪
[Knocking] Eddie, you up?
♪♪
[Knocking] Eddie?
♪♪
- Can you make sure this place is scheduled for 8:00 am?
- I can't take a photo from her phone
because I can't do Photoshop.
We need to put them up in socials.
The social. I literally told you... [Ring]
We're going to have to work it out between us.
[Clears throat]
Well, who needs to get that? [Ring]
That's...
We...
Call his brother. I don't know.
[Ring] Just...
Right, I'm going. Bye.
[Zipper whirring] - [Indistinct voice on TV]
- Look, this campaign's been tough on all of us.
We've been living in each other's pockets.
I've been a bitch.
♪♪
And I'm sorry.
But this is too important to throw away now.
We've all worked too hard for that.
We've always said, if we make the seat marginal,
we've performed a miracle, right?
♪♪
So, call your aunties.
Call your mates.
Call your exes.
- That'll take me all day. - [Chuckle]
- And, whoever you talk to,
make sure they see the passion that I see
every day that we've worked together.
This is about us.
And I'll be damned if we don't give that bastard Ramsay
a run for his money.
♪♪
Let's get out there.
- Alright, let's do this.
♪♪
Uh, remind me... sandwiches. - Uh, yeah.
Did you get me a vegan option? - Yes, obviously.
- Thank you, finally.
♪♪
- We good?
♪♪
- Let's just get through today, yeah?
- Charlie.
♪♪
[Knocking]
Eddie.
[Voice on TV continues]
[Banging on door]
Eddie!
[Sigh] Get dressed.
- I am.
- You're not wearing that.
- What's wrong with it? - You know about the family photo
this morning?
- Yeah, you told me a thousand times.
- So, put on a decent shirt.
And make sure you feed Rocky.
We'll be on the road all day.
- Anything else?
- I need you with me today, Eddie.
It's important.
- Always is.
- [Sigh]
- Bus leaves in 10.
- Can I ride my bike?
Rocky needs a run.
- Don't be late.
♪♪
[Engine idling]
♪♪
[Sigh]
[Creaks, slams]
- Where's Eddie? [Alert chimes]
- He's meeting us at school.
♪♪
Rachel Anderson wished us luck.
- What, are you two best friends now?
- Yeah, we're besties.
♪♪
- Polls are now open across the Eastern Seaboard
for volunteers and voters descending on polling booths,
and candidates traversing electorates
in a last-minute search for votes.
- Hey, can you pull over?
[Mellow tune plays]
- Bit early, isn't it?
♪♪
- Uh...
where's she... going?
- Who knows?
♪♪
[Indistinct voice on TV]
- Ivan.
- Oh, Christ.
Didn't I tell you to piss off?
- Thought you might appreciate a lift
down to the school to vote.
- I'm not voting for you, anyway.
- You don't have to.
I'll still give you a lift.
That goes for all of you.
Why do you vote for Ramsay?
What's that about?
- Well, he
did say hello to me at the airport, once.
- You coming?
- [Sigh] Are they doing a sausage sizzle at the school?
♪♪
♪♪
[Inhales sharply]
♪♪
- With support for both major parties at a historic low
and the election result unlikely to be known for days,
the country is facing political uncertainty
not seen since 2010.
Amongst the raft of independents running
is Rachel Anderson,
Australia's second female prime minister.
- Thanks. - The former PM is tipped
to take a seat from her old party.
- How are you today, Ms. Irving?
- Um, good, thanks. - Yeah?
What do you think of your chances?
- Uh, I've got a feeling it's going to be a great day.
- Yeah, that's good.
- Vote for Alex Irving.
- While Prime Minister Damien Bauer
has ramped up the heat in an increasingly
negative campaign...
- Thanks, everyone. - Anderson has refused
to criticize the government's candidate,
Mima Scott, stating,
"It's important for women to support each other.
I admire Ms. Scott's passion and energy."
- Mr. Prime Minister. - Mr. Prime Minister!
How do you think it went today?
Do you think you've got the numbers?
- Can you tell us... - Well,
I definitely got my own vote,
so, that's something, isn't it?
- Bullshit, Damien. Get a load of this guy, will you?
- Hm? - Going according to plan.
Very happy. - [Scoffing] Oh, God. I don't know
what his wife sees in him.
- It's his man-of-the-people act.
He has run a surprisingly good campaign, though.
- How are we tracking?
- Yep, George and Shaun are both locks,
and the bookies are offering better odds
on Philippa and Justin.
- Oh, good. Helena?
- Bellwether seat. You need a crystal ball for that one.
- What about Alex?
- Closing in the gap.
She spent the 20 grand that we gave her
on final-week radio blitz, which is helping,
but, right now, she needs a miracle.
- Pity.
Maybe you should've funneled her some more cash.
- This is a think tank I'm running.
I'm not a charity.
But our polls are consistent, no clear majority.
Three or four independents is more than enough.
We won't need her.
- Mm.
♪♪
Shall we?
♪♪
- There she is.
- Hey. - Hi.
- How are ya? How are you doing?
♪♪
Hiya. Better vote for me, yeah?
- I will. [Chuckle]
♪♪
- Eddie's not here.
- Well, maybe he's inside.
♪♪
- Through here, please.
- Hey.
- Alex! - Cheryl.
- Last name.
- Irving. - ID.
- 63 Jundah Road, Winton.
There you are.
Have you already voted today?
- First time.
- Here you go. Now, if you make a mistake,
you have to... - I won't.
[Camera beeps, shutter clicks]
- Good luck. - Thanks, Cheryl.
- She will need it.
Charlie! - Morning, Cheryl.
- How are you going? - I'm good. Thank you.
- Last name?
- Hi. You know what to do.
Leave a message. [Beep]
- It's Mum.
Where the bloody hell are ya?
[Suspenseful music plays]
♪♪
[Sigh]
♪♪
♪♪
- Eddie's a no-show.
Let's just do this.
- I'm going to kill him.
- Righto. - Here we go.
[Camera beeps, shutter clicks] Big smile.
[Shutter clicking] - That's it.
[Beep, shutter clicking]
- Yep, put it in.
♪♪
- Clancy, have you seen, Eddie?
- No, Auntie.
- Well, if you see him,
tell him he's grounded.
♪♪
- Alex!
If we're going to make this 11:00 at Longreach,
we got to hit the road!
[Indistinct conversations]
♪♪
[Mellow tune plays]
- Hi. You know what to do.
Leave a message. [Beep]
♪♪
- Okay, folks, buckle up.
We have a jam-packed day ahead.
So, whip your blinds up and stow your tray tables.
[Suspenseful music plays] [Alert chimes]
First up, we have Longreach,
for a cup of tea with the CWA,
before doing a round trip
to thank the volunteers, and, finally,
we'll head back out onto the highway
and we should be back in Winton by beer o'clock.
Any questions?
- Can we swing by home first?
- Sure, yeah.
♪♪
♪♪
- Eddie!
♪♪
Charlie!
♪♪
Eddie!
♪♪
Eddie.
♪♪
- Any sign of him? - No.
- What about the dog?
- No. - Right, I'm calling the police.
♪♪
- There's no signs of violence or forced entry.
- That's not a sign of violence?
- Hey, I'm going to ask you to calm down, okay?
- Alex, the best thing you can do right now
is answer some questions, okay?
- [Clears throat]
- What was Eddie wearing the last time you saw him?
- A yellow-and-gray singlet.
Maroon footy shorts.
I told him to put on a good shirt.
- Did he? - Probably not.
- [Sigh] - Does Eddie have
any mental health issues?
- No. - History of drug use?
- Bet you don't ask that when little white girls go missing.
- Thank you very much.
- These are all standard questions, Alex.
- No, he doesn't.
- Also, I understand you got a notice from DoCS.
- Triggered by some anonymous complaint.
- But he was still skipping school, though.
- Oh.
- Yes, but not lately.
- Has he run away before?
- Eddie wouldn't do that.
- Did you have an argument with Eddie?
- [Sigh]
We've been at loggerheads, lately,
but that's... - What did you argue about?
- He's been through a lot this year.
We're working through it.
- Is there a chance
that Eddie put that noose up there himself?
♪♪
- We're not suggesting anything, at this stage.
We just need to consider all possibilities.
♪♪
- [Clears throat]
♪♪
[Slam]
- Here, here,
here are your possibilities.
That, that came in yesterday.
I've been telling you what's happening.
- Amazed that the AFP was investigating.
- We had election posters burning in the front yard
a few days ago!
You were here!
- We're looking into it, Alex.
♪♪
- [Sniffle]
Why won't anybody tell me what's going on?
♪♪
I know Eddie did not put that thing up, alright?
♪♪
- How would you feel if there was a noose in your yard?
♪♪
[Door creaking]
[Door closes]
♪♪
- Look, in the context of these ongoing threats,
there are grounds to issue a nationwide
AMBER Alert appealing for information about Eddie.
We'll need an hour or so to get permission
from the State Commissioner.
Do I have your consent to make the request?
- Do it.
- Alex Irving is trending.
- Oh, god. What's she done now?
- Her son has gone missing.
- What?
- It can't be a media stunt, can it?
- I wouldn't have thought so.
[Clacking]
- You should definitely make a comment.
- Mm.
- You want to appear compassionate,
not opportunistic.
- Thoughts and prayers. - Naturally.
[Cellphone swishes]
[Cellphone chimes]
I did say she needed a miracle.
- This isn't it.
[Indistinct conversations]
- Alright.
- Beautiful day for democracy.
- Rachel, what are your thoughts on the Bauer campaign?
- Have you heard about Alex Irving's son?
- Yes. This is a very worrying situation,
and we're all praying
for the safe return of Alex Irving's son.
- Yeah, prayers, that's what we need right now.
- Without getting into the specifics
of young Eddie's disappearance, I would like to say this.
That Alex Irving has copped an almost unsurvivable amount
of public vitriol, online abuse,
and very real threats to herself and her family.
Now, we should all call out this hatred,
but it is leadership's role
to set the standards of decency and tolerance,
and I have to say that Damien Bauer has singly failed.
I hope that... - Oh, she is a piece of work.
- She's right.
- No, she's spinning this for political advantage.
- Australian women have had enough.
So I hope we join together today to say, "I stand with Alex."
- Oh, Christ. She's turned you into a hashtag.
- I don't care, Charlie.
- Rachel Anderson has spoken out in support
of fellow candidate Alex Irving, whose Election Day
has been marred by the disappearance of...
♪♪
- Tell auntie what you told me.
- This guy has got it in for us.
- How come?
- I don't know.
- You sure about that?
- We sprayed some water on his car once.
We were just mucking around.
Then he went psycho. - When was this?
- A couple weeks ago.
- You're only telling us now?
What car was he driving?
- A ute.
- Did you get the rego?
Color?
- Maybe... white?
- Was it white or wasn't it?
- Alex.
- White, but dirty.
It was covered in dust.
- What did he look like?
- I don't know.
- Oh, come on, Clancy! Use your brain!
- Sis, go easy on him, eh? He's upset, too.
- Listen to me, Clancy.
If this ute guy has done anything to Eddie,
if he's hurt him, we need to find him fast.
So is there anything you remember about him,
anything at all?
- He's got a tat.
- Where?
- Here. A skeleton.
- This is not good.
[Sighs] God knows what it's going to do to the polling.
- Really?
Her kid is missing, you prick.
The margin is the last thing
she should be giving a shit about right now.
- Yeah, I know that. - Do you?
- Three weeks ago, we had no chance,
and then things started to turn around.
The donations came in. We got the radio stations.
I guess I got my hopes up.
But now she's... - Alex.
- whose Election Day has been
marred by the disappearance...
- Do you know any rednecks with a skeleton tattoo?
- Hot, not my usual type. Why?
- Some guy tried to run Eddie off the road a few weeks back.
- Local, yeah?
Alright.
I actually reckon I might know how to find him.
Just give me a sec.
- You got something to say to me, Leo?
- public vitriol, online abuse...
- You brought me in to keep track of the numbers, right?
- Yeah.
- This seat was always going to be tight,
and people don't like these sorts of things.
It makes them nervous.
- And are they?
- Well, your name and BadMom
are trending on Twitter right now.
But so is IStandWithAlex.
So I really have no idea.
- Ms. Anderson called out the threats and abuse...
- What do you got?
- Winton Whinge and Whine.
It's a social-media site for vigilantes with a grudge.
I reckon ute guy would be exactly the kind of dropkick
to jump on here and have a whinge.
I just have to wade through all the effluent to find it.
- Do it. - Done.
[Ringing]
- Come on, Eddie.
- Hi. You know what to do. Leave a message.
[Beep]
Hi. You know what to do.
- [Breathing deeply]
♪♪
[Dog barks]
- Eddie? [Dog barks]
[Barking continues]
Hey, boy. Hey. Hey. Hey, Rocky. Rocky, hey. Hey.
Hey. Rocky, where's Eddie?
[Dog whimpers]
- Alex.
Come and have a look at this.
- Come on, Rocky. In. Okay.
- A local called Joshua Harvey has been whinging about
a missing dirt bike.
He claims it was stolen by a couple of Indigenous kids.
Couple of weeks ago, he reckons he saw the same kids
mucking up at the servo.
Check it out.
- Oh, god. That's Eddie.
- This creep's been launching an online campaign
against all the Black kids in town.
But this moron hasn't turned on his security settings
on his home page.
All of his posts,
all of his photos, they're all public,
which just check... check this one out.
- Clancy!
Come here.
[Clears throat] Is this him?
- Yeah.
- Can you get an address?
- Yeah, this guy uses geolocation.
I can get the coordinates on every photo on this album.
- Go back.
I know that place.
- I'll let the cops know.
- Charlie!
[Dog barking]
Where are the cops?
[Barking continues]
- Alright, just stay here.
♪♪
Joshua Harvey.
Joshua Harvey.
[Seat belt clicks]
♪♪
Just come out and talk to us.
[Knock on window]
Joshua Harvey.
- Harvey!
Where's my boy?!
- Alex, Alex, stay in the car.
Alex.
Alex, just let me handle this.
Alex, stop. Alex.
- Harvey, get the fuck out here!
- Alex, put... Alex, put that down.
Alex.
- Harvey, get out here!
- Alex, this is not helping.
- Joshua Harvey!
- Alex. Alex, stop!
[Glass shatters] Alex!
- Oi! Oi, that's my car, you crazy bitch!
- Where's my kid?!
- Alright, everyone just calm down.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- My son!
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Look, I don't even know your son.
- My son, Eddie, what the fuck have you done with him?
- Hey!
- Where is he?! - Hey, someone call the cops!
- We already have. Put it down, for Christ's sake.
- If you've hurt my son,
I will fucking kill you!
[Sirens wailing] Where is he?!
- I don't know anything about your kid.
[Wailing continues]
- Matilda, get back inside.
[Wailing continues]
[Crowbar clanks]
- Come on. Come on.
- Harvey admits to putting up that noose,
but he swears he hasn't seen Eddie.
- Oh, what? And you believe him?
- His story checks out, Alex...
Eyewitnesses, call records, everything.
- He threatened to kill Eddie. It's online.
- You have to let us do our jobs.
- Oh, I don't believe this.
He strung up a fucking noose!
- Alright, you need to go home now, okay?
- No. - I'm not going to ask you again.
- I don't care.
You go. We're staying.
- Leave now, or we can... - Yep, alright.
We don't have to do this, not now.
We're leaving. Fine. - We're staying, Charlie.
- We're leaving.
- Take her home. You make sure she stays there.
- Yeah, fine.
♪♪
- They're not going to do a fucking thing.
- Yeah.
- I wish Mum was here.
She'd know what to do.
- She is.
She's looking out for him.
- Thought you were an atheist.
- Yeah, when it suits me.
We'll find him, Alex.
We'll find him.
♪♪
- What's going on? - We've heard about Eddie, Alex.
We're all here to help you.
- Don't worry, sis. We'll find him for you.
♪♪
- Thank you.
- [Speaking Indigenous language]
Welcome home.
♪♪
[Speaking indigenous language]
- [Sniffles] Thank you, all of you.
♪♪
Thank you. Thank you.
♪♪
[Crying]
[Sniffles]
[Cellphone chimes]
♪♪
[Cellphone swishes]
[Cellphone chimes, vibrates]
[Cellphone chimes, vibrates]
[Sniffles]
- With the polls due to close across Queensland in an hour,
the drama surrounding Alex Irving's missing son
continues to cast a shadow over Election Day.
- Eddie!
- Earlier, police issued an AMBER Alert
for Eddie Irving when the teenager failed
to show up at a campaign event for his mother.
- Eddie!
- While many public figures have voiced
their concern and support, others have accused
Irving of neglect, claiming that Child Services
had assessed Eddie for a so-called safety plan.
Irving's campaign declined to comment on the allegations.
[Cellphone swishes]
[Cellphone chimes, vibrates]
- "Where is... my... son?"
[Cellphone swishes]
[Cellphone chimes, vibrates]
Alright, cunt.
"Please.
[Cellphone swishes]
[Cellphone chimes, vibrates]
[Cellphone chimes, vibrates]
[Sniffles, gasping]
♪♪
- Wait. What happened? Alex!
Alex!
Oi!
Alex, what's going on?
Alex, open the door.
[Tires squeal] Alex!
[Engine revs]
Charlie. We need to move this ute.
Grab the keys. - Yeah, where are the keys?
Where are the... - Here.
- Here. Give me the... Give.
♪♪
[Engine revving]
[Cellphone ringing]
- Alex, the police are on their way.
Can you slow down, for god's sake?
- Fuck!
♪♪
[Engine shuts off]
♪♪
Eddie!
Eddie!
Eddie.
[Screaming]
- He's okay. He's not here.
He's not here. He's okay.
Hey, hey, they found him.
They found him.
Oh. They found him. He's okay.
He's okay. He's not in there.
- [Crying]
- He's not in there.
[Birds chirping]
♪♪
- Don't you ever, ever do that to me again.
You blame me for what I've put you through,
and you want to pay it back?
Well, congratulations, boy! You succeeded!
- You're so full of shit. - Don't you dare!
- You listen to everyone else. Everyone.
But you never listen to me.
You say you're doing this for other people, but you're not.
It's always about you. - Hey.
You have no idea what your mother has been through today.
The entire country thinks you're missing.
- I thought you were dead.
- Maybe then you'd care.
[Police radio chatter]
- [Crying]
♪♪
I'm sorry.
- I used to come here when I didn't go to school,
help Stephen out.
- I didn't know that.
- I get angry.
- About what?
- All of it.
I don't know.
About Stephen, about Jess, about Nan.
- Me?
You can say it.
- Sometimes.
It's just that bad shit keeps happening when you're here.
- I don't really help, do I?
- Not really.
- What are you going to do with all that anger?
You're not a kid anymore.
How are you going to use it?
- Burn shit down.
That's what you do, right?
- Doesn't really help.
- Can we go home now?
[Cheers and applause]
♪♪
- Whoo-hoo!
[Cheers and applause continue]
Oh, boy. [Laughs]
Ladies and gentlemen, the silent majority has spoken,
and they are tired of the dishonesty of politics
as usual and the tyranny of the two-party system.
This victory is for them.
[Cheers and applause]
- He sent me out to Massacre Creek,
where a mob got slaughtered,
and that's where he said he buried Eddie.
Do you think he's a local?
- Anyone with a search engine could find that out.
- But he knew that place means something to us.
I'm want to find that bastard, Charlie.
♪♪
- Sis.
He's a good kid.
Got to remember that.
[Car door closes]
- I am so honored that North Sydney
has elected me as their representative
once again, and I will work tirelessly...
[Whooshing]
The hardworking, decent people of Australia have spoken.
- Thanks, Uncle.
- 3.50. Thanks, Alex.
- Now, as you can see behind me,
we are over the moon here tonight,
and I have to do a big shout-out to our volunteers.
[Cheers and applause] They've been incredible.
And I think, tonight, we sent
a very strong message to Canberra.
- At this stage, it's still too close to call.
The opposition is marginally ahead of the government
in terms of seats declared,
but if there's a trend here,
it's a big swing to the independents
right across the country.
Perhaps the most surprising of these is Freeman.
We've only got five booths reporting so far,
but early results point to a significant drop
in the primary vote for the incumbent, Jack Ramsay.
If these numbers hold, it will be a major upset
for both the government and the opposition.
- Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa! [Laughs]
So good. - Cheers!
- Cheers. [Cellphone rings]
Oh.
- Oh, he doesn't waste any time.
And cue the messenger.
- Peter.
- Rachel. I hope I'm not crushing your celebrations.
I wanted to be one of the first to congratulate you.
- Well, that's very magnanimous of you.
- Well, if anybody could pull this off, it was you.
- I can't take all the credit.
- Nick. - Peter.
Shouldn't you be bunkered down in the war room?
- Oh, we're still, uh, pretty relaxed over there.
- Well, you need to change the channel.
Damien is in trouble.
- Tell him we're open to negotiating,
but it also comes with a warning.
It's going to hurt.
- [Chuckles] No doubt.
Enjoy your evening.
[Laughter, indistinct conversations]
♪♪
- I think, Theresa, the independents...
They will hold the balance of power,
but it's potentially a fatal blow for the leaderships
of both Damien Bauer and Laurie Martin.
Back to New South Wales now,
where sitting member Helena Rossi
has held the Sydney seat of Lennox.
While this is apparently a win for the government,
Ms. Rossi had a blunt message
regarding factional divisions within the party.
- I am so grateful to my volunteers,
to my supporters, to my family, and to my friends.
Without them, I wouldn't be here.
[Cheers and applause]
To my own party, I would say the people of this electorate
have shown that they're sick of bully boys from the back room
treating them with contempt.
We need to do better.
Am I right? [Cheers and applause]
We need to do better.
- Rossi faced a concerted campaign
by elements of her own party to strip her of the seat.
A spokesperson said the party had a rigorous
and confidential process in place for...
[Laughter, indistinct conversations]
- Look at that place.
[Rock music playing]
Mum still wasn't allowed in there when I was born.
She had to stay out front.
- And now we're having our campaign party there.
The irony.
- Didn't she strip off and protest one time?
- She what?
- Full starkers. That's what Faye reckons.
Wish I'd seen that. - I don't.
[Laughter]
- I'm sorry.
- What for?
- Asking you to come home.
Joining the campaign, putting up with me.
- Well, had nothing else to do.
- I couldn't have done it without you.
What a waste of time.
- No, you made an impact. You always do.
- I should just give Bait15 what he wants.
Shut up, give up, stop fighting.
- No, fuck that.
Then he wins.
I know I told you to report and block, not engage,
but after today, I just want to find the prick
and I want to hurt him.
- I don't know if it's worth it, Charlie.
[Cheers and applause]
[Ringtone]
[Cellphone chimes, vibrates]
[Cellphones chiming, beeping]
[Cheers and applause]
- We won!
We won!
We won!
[Cheers and applause continue]
♪♪
Yes!
[Cheers and applause]
- [Breathes deeply] What a day.
[Camera shutters clicking]
When we started, Freeman was a safe seat.
They'll never take us for granted again.
- Whoo! - Not anymore.
- We can get through anything if we work together,
because out here,
when someone falls, we pick them up.
- Yes. - Yep, yep.
- That's what you did for me,
and I'll never forget that.
[Camera shutter clicks]
This is for Mum.
This is for Stephen... JC...
Marcie...
Eddie.
[Camera shutter clicks]
This is for us.
[Cheers and applause]
- Hey!
- We love you, Alex!
[Cheers and applause]
♪♪
- [Chanting] Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex!
♪♪
- [Sighs]
♪♪
♪♪
Can't find what you're looking for?
Get subtitles in any language from opensubtitles.com, and translate them here.