Any update? CNBC is reporting that Labor has agreed to all of the demands of the independents and the conservative coalition has not.
The conservative coalition now looks to have 73 near certain seats, Labor has 71. The Greens have 1, and there are 4 independents.
1 seat remains in doubt, but is most likely going to go Labor over Liberal.
Negotiations are underway with the independents at present.
What Labor has agreed to and the coalition has not is a demand by the independents that they have access to confidential Treasury information concerning the state of the budget. The Prime Minister has agreed, the Leader of the Opposition has not - the reason he has not, is because the request is probably a violation of what are called the ‘caretaker conventions’ - the rules by which government is meant to operate in an election period (which we are still in). The request is arguably unconstitutional. This information is only supposed to be provided to a new government after it takes office.