Labor leader Anthony Albanese is poised to form government with a narrow majority or a crossbench deal after Australians turned against the Coalition in an extraordinary election that swung support behind the Greens and swept independent candidates into parliament, a report in Sydney Morning Hearald said.

The powerful swings left Prime Minister Scott Morrison without the numbers to hold government as voters drove the Liberals out of key marginal seats in favour of Labor candidates or rejected the Liberals in blue-ribbon seats to install independents.