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Polarising Kean leaves a void
By Ben Cubby
A self-described “classical Liberal”, Matt Kean copped flack from left and right during vigorous spells as treasurer and minister for the environment.
By withdrawing from the Liberal leadership race, the party’s deputy leader vacates the field to at least four candidates who present a mix of factional support.
While speculation is rife in the party that Kean will consider a switch to federal politics, he’s said today that family comes first and, politically, he’s concentrating on representing his Hornsby electorate.
Matt Kean at his home in Pennant Hills with partner Wendy Quinn, their son Tom 3, and her daughters Jasmine 10, and Monique 8.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone
A polarising figure within the Liberals, Kean has been unafraid to criticise the federal party over its lack of action on climate change and other policies, as well as the right-wing factions of the state party.
He earned the ire of the right-wing “Sky after-dark” commentators, who call him “Green Kean” and blame him for all the Liberals’ woes in NSW. But conservationists have also criticised his environmental credentials.
Here is Matt Wade’s interview Kean from the election campaign trail.
Meet the new cabinet
By Ben Cubby
Chris Minns has indicated that he will keep the same front bench he took to the election. Meet the senior Labor personalities likely to make up the team, Christopher Harris reports.
Chris Minns on his campaign bus with Labor colleagues (from left) Courtney Houssos, Daniel Mookhey, John Graham, Penny Sharpe, Jo Hayden, and deputy leader Prue Car last Sunday.Credit:Dylan Coker
Born and raised in Western Sydney, Prue Car is deputy premier-elect and soon-to-be education minister. Daniel Mookhey is set to be the next treasurer, John Graham is expected to be Minister for Roads as well as the Arts. Jo Haylen is set to be the state’s next Transport Minister, Penny Sharpe is expected to be the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Ryan Park is set to be health minister, and Paul Scully is expected to take over the planning and police portfolios.
Read more about them all here.
The Paris End of Parramatta Road?
By Ben Cubby
Big building projects don’t win votes - at least, not when cost of living pressures are dominating discussion at election time. That is the verdict of senior Liberals who watched the key seat of Parramatta slip from the party’s grasp, Matt O’Sullivan reports.
Former NSW transport minister Andrew Constance, who oversaw a host of mega projects, said cost-of-living pressures were by far the biggest issue on voters’ minds. Former premier Mike Baird said Parramatta had become the Paris of western Sydney, given the infrastructure projects that were transforming the city.
Labor repeatedly targeted the cost of tolls during the election campaign, and Constance said motorway charges flowed through into voters’ concerns about cost of living despite a toll subsidy scheme for frequent users.
The four contenders for the NSW Liberal leadership
By Ben Cubby
With Matt Kean declaring he won’t run, there are four contenders in the frame for the job of state opposition leader, Lucy Cormack reports.
Right-wing frontbencher Anthony Roberts, former sports minister Alister Henskens, caretaker Attorney-General Mark Speakman, and former environment minister James Griffin are in the mix following Perrottet’s decision to stand aside.
Anthony Roberts, Alister Henskens, Mark Speakman and James Griffin.Credit:Rhett Wyman, Cole Bennets, Oscar Colman
Roberts said he was considering throwing his hat in the ring, Griffin said he had spoken to colleagues but declined to elaborate, while Henskens and Speakman did not comment.
Read more here.
Kean rules out Liberal leadership tilt
By Ben Cubby
Former Treasurer Matt Kean will not seek to become Liberal leader, or a member of the opposition’s leadership team, saying he wants to spend more time with his family.
“I have decided not to throw my hat in the ring for the NSW Liberal leadership,” Kean said in a statement this afternoon.
Matt Kean won’t contest the Liberal leadership.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone
“I have a young family and I would love to spend a little more time with them. The election result will enable me to do that.
“Tommy recently turned three and now is the time for me to hang out and be a dad, while also continuing to serve my wonderful Hornsby constituents and the Liberal Party, though not as leader and not as part of the leadership team.
“I want to thank Dominic Perrottet for his service to the people of NSW and thank my community for their ongoing support. I will continue to work hard for Hornsby every single day.”
Too close to call: Candidates left biting their nails in nine seats
By Ben Cubby
There are still nine seats too close to call - Goulburn, Holsworthy, Kiama, Miranda, Oatley, Pittwater, Willoughby, Winston Hills and Wollondilly. Candidates have been left biting their nails until the count begins again on Monday morning, with just over half of the state’s votes yet to be tallied.
Among those in limbo is the independent candidate for Willoughby Larissa Penn, who expressed frustration with the state’s optional preferential voting system. But the wait will be over soon, writes Megan Gorrey.
Minns’ mild manner downplays enormous win
By Ben Cubby
If anyone was expecting overt displays of euphoria from Labor’s Premier-elect Chris Minns on Sunday morning, they would have been disappointed, writes Deborah Snow.
Instead, at his first full media conference after Saturday night’s resounding victory, Minns remained his trademark even-tempered self, venturing to say that the positive results for Labor in some seats were “a surprise but in many ways a pleasant surprise”. It was the closest he got to a moment of self-congratulation.
Yet the win is a huge one, and so is the task ahead. Read more here.
NSW Labor leader Chris Minns at his first press conference as premier-elect on Sunday.Credit:Edwina Pickles
Browse the numbers: How your electorate voted
By Ben Cubby
If you’re just dipping into the blog, let’s recap the poll numbers as they stand today. Labor has won majority government in NSW, claiming victory in 47 seats.
Winning grin: Chris Minns enjoys Sunday brunch with his wife Anna and their three sons.Credit:Edwina Pickles
With 48.35% of the vote counted so far, NSW Labor received 991,056 votes, the NSW Liberal-National Coalition received 927,447, the Greens 270,417, Independents 235, 789, and others 244,979. Counting is set to resume on Monday morning.
Browse the totals and the tallies for individual seats on our results page here.
Teal fail: Moderate Libs soften independent support
By Ben Cubby
The teal phenomenon looks to have been a federal revolution which required Scott Morrison to foment, writes Jacqueline Maley.
Federal teal independents Allegra Spender, Kylea Tink, Zali Steggall and Sophie Scamps.Credit:Oscar Colman
Hopes of teals taking Lane Cove, Manly and North Shore proved overblown, and while Pittwater and Wollondilly were too close to call on Sunday, they looked unlikely to fall to teal control.
The greatest power the teals flexed at the federal level last year was the strength of their political brand - female, forward-looking, intelligent and moderate. The teals positioned themselves as both the antidote and the answer to a Liberal Party populated by middle-aged white men, whose leader reckoned it was a triumph of democracy that women were not “met with bullets” when they protested about their treatment.
Read more here.
Minns’ win daunting for Dutton
By Ben Cubby
The scale of Labor’s win in NSW surprised many. It validates the party’s federal strategy, heightens the dangers for the Liberals in a looming Victorian byelection and sends a warning to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton about the risk of losing city voters, writes federal chief political correspondent David Crowe.
The result is a sense of a Labor ascendancy that extends beyond the NSW border. Albanese is far more popular in the opinion polls after the election than before, and that means he has a chance to gain more ground by defeating the Liberals at the Aston byelection in suburban Melbourne this coming Saturday. It may be only a small chance, but it is a chance.
Chris Minns’ win in NSW sends a warning to federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton about the risk of losing city voters.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen/Janie Barrett
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