The Liberal Party in New South Wales has proposed redrawing electoral boundaries, which would force independent MPs Zali Steggall and Kylea Tink into a political battle for survival. The party aims to combine Steggall's Warringah electorate with Tink's North Sydney seat, while also abolishing other seats and creating new ones.
Teal independents Zali Steggall and Kylea Tink would be forced into a political battle of survival under a proposal from the Liberal Party that safeguards its own fortunes under an overhaul of NSW’s federal electoral boundaries .
The party is also calling for the abolition of Blaxland, the western Sydney seat held by Education Minister Jason Clare on a 14 per cent margin, by absorbing it into Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke’s Watson seat, as well the creation of a new south-western Sydney seat of Bird Walton. Low population growth across NSW means the state is to lose one of its 47 electorates, while one of Melbourne’s metropolitan electorates also must go.
While the Liberal Party would get rid of Warringah, the Labor Party proposes extending the seat into the southern areas of the neighbouring seat of North Sydney. That includes moving the suburbs of North Sydney and Crows Nest into Warringah. Current independent member Allegra Spender and former member Malcolm Turnbull used submissions to argue the electorate should push west into Potts Point, Darlinghurst, East Sydney and Woolloomooloo. All of these areas, now in the seat of Sydney, were in Wentworth between 2006 and 2016.Population in Sydney’s northern and eastern suburbs and in its inner west has either been stagnant or fallen over in recent years.
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