While the overall result was about what I expected, the seat-swing make-up wasn’t, writes Peter Brent.
Macarthur
Brent: Who is the next Jackie Kelly?
Who is the next Jackie Kelly? And the next Danna Vale? Or put another way: which seats tomorrow will be the next Lindsay and Hughes? Peter Brent investigates.
The long march of Sydney’s fringe
Every Crikey reader has been told that Eden-Monaro, in regional New South Wales, is a “bellwether seat. But there’s one seat, also in NSW, with a much more impressive record: Macarthur, south-west of Sydney, has gone to the winner at every election since its creation in 1949.
