Good morning. Aoife Hilton and Lincoln Archer here with your morning NewsMail as the federal election counting continues and 16 seats remain in doubt.

The battle for the seat of Melbourne remains on a knife's edge, with Labor's Sarah Witty possibly taking the Greens' leader's seat. And while Clive Palmer's Trumpet of Patriots party has claimed no seats in the lower house, it still has a chance at a seat in the Senate.

Today, we question how the Coalition lost suburban voters and how the pollsters got it so wrong. Also, we're anticipating the results of the most diverse conclave in history.

First and foremost, you can keep up-to-date with the latest developments on today's politics live blog.

While the counting continues, the ABC continues to map out Labor's sweeping election victory. And no matter how you look at it, the election map paints a very confronting picture for the Coalition. Whether it was its policy agenda or Peter Dutton's leadership, the response from the suburbs couldn't have been be clearer: they didn't want what the Liberal Party was selling. StoryLab takes one step out from the city to question how the LNP's strategy of appealing to suburban voters backfired so badly.

You can get the latest on your electorate's count at our live results page or you can use Casey Briggs's interactive maps to look up how your region voted.

• Remember the polls? Opinion polling firmed against Peter Dutton in the final weeks of the election campaign, but it told us it would be close. How could the pollsters be so wrong?
• The nuclear proposal: A sea of solar panels offers a clue about why Australians chose renewables over the Coalition's nuclear plan.
• Analysis by Ian Verrender: As a returning prime minister, Anthony Albanese may face a difficult choice between powerful allies. Caught between a China-US trade war, things could get ugly.

BONUS: Anthony Albanese never doubted he could win the election and he wasn't afraid to say it, Rafael Epstein writes.

• Gaza aid: Our correspondent is on the ground in Gaza talking to people queuing for hours at a soup kitchen. It's one pot each per day but supplies are running out. Israel is now warning of an expanded operation.
• Planning care: We've spoken to older parents about how they're planning for the inevitable, and navigating the impact that will have on their adult sons and daughters with disabilities. It's a difficult but necessary conversation.
• Mushroom trial: Our team in Victoria is following every moment of the murder trial of Erin Patterson, which is expected to run for at least another month. It has compiled this rundown of the key people, timeline and evidence to help you keep track.

• Conclave make-up: When Catholic cardinals gather tomorrow night (AEST) to begin selecting the new pope, they'll do so as the most diverse conclave in history. Today we're looking at what that means for the future of not just the papacy, but the church itself.
• Zombie ants: Some of the country's top scientists have been working with Indigenous rangers to access rugged parts of the Arnhem Land plateau that are rarely seen, even by traditional owners. And they've found something weird happening to the ants .
• Netball mystery: Our Super Netball round-up should appeal to fans of the sport and amateur sleuths alike. It involves a "white lie", a classic misdirect and a satisfying reveal.

— That's Jorgen Boassen, although for our purposes today we might as well go with his self-styling as Donald Trump's Greenlandic son. The ABC’s Foreign Correspondent joined Boassen on the ground in Greenland to hear why he welcomed US interest in taking over his island. We found millinery is not the only complaint after all.

BONUS: There's another island that Mr Trump has a grand plan for: Alcatraz.

Today we learned there was something of a fad around the turn of the 20th century for uranium to be mixed in when making glass and ceramics. The desired effect, this story tells us, was "a subtle green".

This photo, albeit aided with UV light, leaves little room for subtlety. Nor does any Geiger counter you might have handy. For those in the know, it's now all about casting sneaky blasts of black light across ornaments when browsing in antiques stores in the hope of finding that telltale, and lucrative, lustre. 

That's it for this morning, thanks for your company. We'll be back with more tomorrow.

Aoife and Lincoln and the ABC News Digital team.

Australians overwhelmingly chose household batteries over nuclear, rejecting the Coalition's anti-renewables agenda.