neck and neck-newspoll- abbotts gooone!, page-68

"The result was ALP 50.1% to 49.9% LNP, which is pretty close."

that's two party preferred ie Labor and the Greens

The reality was 72 seats each and then crooks who was calling himself a WA National rejoined the Coalition down the track making the score 72 Labor and 73 to the Coalition

Labor lost 11 seats and the coalition won 7.
Clearly, people had had enough of this mob and wanted a change.
But if not for the political shinanigans of a couple of independents pretending to be conservatives when clearly they were not ie Labor blokes dressed up as conservatives, the people of australia would have had what they wanted - a coalition government