Gains in seats in Sydney’s west – even among previously safe Liberal seats – show Labor leader correctly picked mood of the state
It was those seats – where voters abandoned Labor 12 years ago in the 2011 electoral wipeout – which returned the party to government.
Gains in seats such as Riverstone, Camden, Ryde, Penrith and East Hills demonstrate the party picked the mood correctly.. While it was not quite the teal wave of the last federal poll, the Liberals lost the seat of Wakehurst to an independent and appeared in severe danger of losing Gladys Berejiklian’s former seat of Willoughby to another. The seat of Pittwater on the Northern Beaches was also too close to call.
How then to win back the support both of the east and west of Sydney without having to alienate one or the other and will it be Kean – the flag-bearer for the moderates – who leads them post election, or a more conservative option? For Labor, now begins the task of actually governing. It faces difficult decisions on a series of immediate energy issues including theand the Narrabri gas pipeline, while also having to tackle some of its key election promises – such as bringing in thousands of new nurses, teachers and paramedics.
For now though, the party can bask in a return to government that even 18 months ago seemed unlikely. As Minns said in his victory speech: “New South Wales Labor is back and ready to govern.”
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