. With just over 80 per cent of the votes counted, Ms McBain leads Ms Kotvojs by 1,335 votes. She said she will focus on the bushfire recovery effort when she arrives in Canberra and promised to work in a bipartisan manner to help the region. Labor's primary did drop between three and four per cent, however preferences allowed the party to get over the line in the tight contest. Ms McBain told reporters on Sunday voters were concerned about local issues.
"Voters were speaking to me about the issues they were having, the experiences they had, their issues with jobkeeper, worrying about what will happen with bushfire relief, worrying about how they’re going to make it through the summer, you know, worrying about the future of jobs for their kids in the region, worrying about healthcare issues, local roads, telephone black spots right across the regions." “No – the issues people were telling me, their local issues on the ground.
The people won’t forget
Any friend of Trump is a Friend of Sky News & the Liberal Party. All are heading towards mental illness.
SKY NEWS WERE HOPING FOR A LIBERAL VICTORY. BAD LUCK SKY THE PEOPLE OF EDEN MONARO HAVE SPOKEN .
Barley win and their primary was well and truly reduced.
Shit, that must have been really hard to type that headline , given you wrote Kristy McBain off before voting finished.
Can’t wait for the Murdoch RWFW larkeys spewing how this is a devastating victory for the leftist elites.
Not so much a win for ALP as a huge loss for the scum at Murdoch - where the truth goes to die
Only thanks to them doing a deal with the Shooters party.
😂
No no no no ..... it’s a big win for ScoMo remember. I saw it on your feed earlier.
ALP , LNP .. NO real choices for this country. Both parties follow the same sick agenda. They only name it differently, so it looks for the ordinary Australian as if there's a difference. Lost either way.
Better let aclennell know. 😏
NOT EVEN 24 HOURS HAVE PAST AND THE ANTI LABOR SKYNEWS MEDIA IS ALREADY ATTACKING LABORS KRISTY McBAIN, IF SHE WAS FROM LNP GOV THE SKYNEWS COMMENTORS WOULD BE PRAISING HER 24/7 BUT BECAUSE SHE IS FROM ALP GOV THEY WILL ATTACK HER AND HER HUSBAND AND KIDS AND FAMILY 24/7.
Ahh good you finally caught up. Well done Sky. Anyone tell Peta yet?
CON GRATS KRISTY FOR YOUR VICTORY OVER PATHETIC LIBERAL GOV AND THE PATHETIC ANTI LABOR COMMENTATORS ON SKYNEWS, THE SKYNEWS LABOR HATTERS TOLD THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE LAST NIGHT THAT LIBERAL GOV HAD WON BY-ELECTION THAT PROVED HOW MUCH THEY HATE LABOR AND FAVOUR LNP GOV.
oops, your biased predictions didn't go so good.
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