Federal Election results: Tanya Plibersek blasts Clive Palmer for Labor loss
Anthony Albanese has made a bold pitch to be the next Labor leader while acknowledging the party needs to do some soul-searching about its shock election defeat.
Mr Albanese gave a press conference at the Unity Hall pub in Sydney to announce he would be running for the leadership just moments after Bill Shorten issued a statement saying he would ask the Labor executive to immediately begin the process of electing his replacement.
In making his pitch, Mr Albanese said running for leadership did not come naturally to him but he declared he would be able to take the Coalition on in a “vigorous fashion”, while also being able to “reach across the aisle” to get things done.
