Counting is taking place across all polling booths in the Liberal-held electorate in Melbourne’s outer-east in what will be a key test for Liberal leader Peter Dutton.
Labor’s Mary Doyle has achieved an upset victory against Liberal candidate Roshena Campbell in the crucial byelection in the outer Melbourne seat of Aston.
“We’ve also got to understand that the Australian people give any new governments a chance and 10 months in that seems to be what we are seeing here tonight.” “We were talking about ourselves. It was handled poorly and they saw us as anti-Christian,” they said. A member of the Liberal Party’s shadow cabinet, who asked not to be named so they could speak freely, said disastrous result would create serious problems for Dutton.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says the Aston byelection result is vindication for Anthony Albanese’s Labor government, but wasn’t certain of victory. “It comes back to one thing, what does the Liberal Party stand for? What are we arguing for?” Kroger said on Sky News. Brighton man John Sugunananthan has spent the days volunteering at the Fairhills Primary School in Ferntree Gully.
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