Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has taken to social media to celebrate not only the Coalition’s crushing election defeat, but also opposition leader Peter Dutton losing his own seat at Saturday’s election.

Labor’s Ali France tasted victory in the Dickson electorate on her third attempt, meaning his career as a politician was over, at least for now.

It was a landslide defeat for his party as their primary vote share as a whole fell more than five per cent, losing several seats across the country.

The Test opener was congratulatory, yet made a stinging attack on the Liberal politician personally, when the results of the vote showed Anthony Albanese would be returned to office for a second term.

Dutton has held the seat of Dickson since 2001, and now the Coalition will need to find a new leader.

“Balance is restored,” Khawaja’s Instagram post read.

“He who shall not be named has been defeated. Blaming immigrants all the way through and creating division as he has always done.

“But the people have spoken. We are not the US, you can’t scare and fool us. ‘We are one and free’.”

It received a mixed reaction in the comments with some telling the batsman to stick to cricket issues, but most were supportive of his stance.

The 38-year-old was believed to be referencing not only Mr Dutton’s former role as Immigration Minister under the previous Coalition government, but also his stance on the refugees from Gaza.

Last August, the opposition leader claimed that Australia should not be taking in refugees from the Israel-Palestine war, when many were left homeless and displaced.

“I don’t think people should be coming in from that war zone at all at the moment,” Mr Dutton told Sky News in 2024.

Usman Khawaja was given a reprimand for wearing a black armband to protest the violence in Gaza throughout the first Test against Pakistan. (Photo by Will Russell/Getty Images)

At the time, it received strong criticism from Prime Minister Albanese and MP Zali Stegall, who labelled it as “racist”.

Khawaja, who has spoken publicly about his Muslim faith, has been lobbying to voice his support for those affected by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

During a previous Test series against Pakistan in Australia, Khawaja wrote “all lives are equal” and “freedom is a human right” on his shoes.

He was prevented by the ICC from displaying those messages on his shoes in the colours of the Palestinian flag as a personal protest against the war in Gaza, and had to tape over them. 

Khawaja then had to appeal to display a dove holding an olive branch on his bat, after that too was rejected by the ICC initially.

“I feel strongly about the right of every human being to enjoy peace, freedom and equality in dignity and rights regardless of their gender, age, colour, race, language, religion or national or social origin,” he wrote in the submission at the time.

The Prime Minister came out in support of Khawaja’s stance, saying he ‘showed courage’.

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