Keneally opens up on election loss and blames COVID-19 lockdowns for defeat

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Keneally opens up on election loss and blames COVID-19 lockdowns for defeat
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The former Senator says she has no regrets being parachuted into a Sydney seat, insisting the subsequent defeat to an independent was not the biggest loss in her life and pointed to the seat's 'harshest and longest lockdown' was the reason she lost.

Kristina Keneally has blamed the"harsh and longest" coronavirus lockdown in the south-west Sydney seat of Fowler for her spectacular Federal Election loss last week.

Former Senator Kristina Keneally believes lockdowns in the seat of Fowler paid a part in her Federal Election loss. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nikki Short She believes the results would have been the same and similar"challenges" would have been met had the party chosen someone else to run in the seat. The 53-year-old normally resides 70 kilometres away on the Northern Beaches exclusive suburb of Scotland Island where she wasMs Keneally spotted her police officer son Daniel back in the Northern Suburbs this week. Picture: Nine News

"The greatest loss in my life was when my daughter Caroline was still-born in 1999, the single most defining moment in my life," the mother-of-two said.Ms Keneally revealed she enjoyed a whisky with"close friends" to wind down after she conceded defeat.

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