Election weekend is finally over, but the results aren't finished yet.
As the chips continue to fall with ongoing vote counts, the blame game has kicked off within the Opposition.
Liberal senator Hollie Hughes pinned the blame at the feet of her party's treasurer, Angus Taylor, in a scathing new interview today.
"I have concerns about his capability. I feel we have zero economic policy to sell," Hughes said to ABC Radio National.
"I don't know what he's been doing for three years. There was no tax policy, there was no economic narrative."
Meanwhile, major third party players are still facing doubts over their seats, starting with Jacqui Lambie down in Tasmania as she faces major competition from Pauline Hanson's daughter Lee, who ran under her mother's One Nation Party.
The One Nation leader has taken to the media in recent days to say that she was “not happy” with Lambie, who she claims was “not a conservative” and voted consistently with the ALP and the Greens.
On election night, however, Lambie refused to respond or engage further in any back and forth.
“I don't run into the toxic stuff, I won't do it. I wish everyone the very best of luck,” the Tasmanian senator said.
“It takes a lot of courage to stand as a candidate…so I'm not getting into that nasty stuff. I just don't want to. I wish Lee the very best.”
In Victoria, Green's leader Adam Bandt continues a bitter fight for his seat in Melbourne.
At the time of reporting nearly 64% of the vote was counted, with Labor's Sarah Witty pulling ahead by an estimated 2,899 votes, on day 3 of thise neck-and-neck race.
If the results continue in this trend, Bandt could become the second Party Leader to lose his seat in this election, after Opposition leader Peter Dutton failed to retain the seat of Dickson after more than 20 years.
Also in Victoria the key seat of Goldstein remains on an even keel between the LNP's Tim Wilson and Independent Zoe Daniel. At the time of reporting she led by just 95 votes.
Clive Palmer, after spending tens of millions of dollars on campaign advertising, only scoring 1.85 per cent of primary votes and failing to secure a single seat this year, has decided to step back from politics, citing his age.
“I’m 71 and I’m getting too old for politics,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
YouTube advertising was the biggest way that parties and candidates spent campaign ad funds this year, totalling nearly $26 million on that platform alone.
Broken down on a case by case basis, Labor was the number one spender for these ads, according to data on ad spending compiled by Adgile, and ended up with a total three times higher than their YouTube spend in the last election.
For traditional TV advertising, across Seven, Nine, Paramount, SBS and Foxtel, the total bill sat at $54 million.
