[01:21.58]In his victory speech, its leader Tony Abbott told supporters he would deliver a competent new government.
[01:27.84]“A government that says what it means, and means what it says;
[01:32.16]a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential;
[01:43.36]and a government that accepts, that will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.”
[01:51.46]Conceding defeat, the Labor leader Kevin Rudd announced he would be resigning as party leader.
[01:58.41]The US Secretary of State John Kerry and the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius have spoken of their determination to respond to the use of chemical weapons in Syria last month.
[02:09.52]Mr Kerry said the United States and France were not talking about going to war,
[02:14.55]but discussing limited military action aimed at degrading the Syrian authorities’ ability to use chemical weapons.
[02:21.47]He said the world mustn’t make the mistakes it did in the run-up to the Second World War.
[02:25.84]“This really is the Munich of our generation.
[02:34.67]It is time to hold people accountable, not to appease them.
[02:38.69]We cannot stay indifferent in the face of this massacre.”
[02:42.54]Tens of thousands of people have gathered in the Vatican to pray for peace in Syria.