As Labor’s dream came true, the Liberals began to analyze their losses.
Former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard attended the party’s election event but was reluctant to comment on the results. He said, “it is not possible to talk about it so early”.
But he said Dominic Perot took over as premier in “incredibly difficult circumstances” after the sudden departure of Gladys Berejiklian.
“I admire him a lot,” Mr. Howard said of the outgoing premier.
Asked whether they had lost the vote on climate change and the city senior Liberal and Federal Treasury spokesman Angus Taylor said that ‘different people are good at different things’.
Mr. “You have to promote where your strengths are,” Taylor told Sky News.
Both leaders campaigned heavily in key seats in Sydney’s west, where a third of the New South Wales electorate lives, and in many places there were signs of fierce competition.
The outgoing premier voted in the Beecroft constituency with wife Helen and daughter Celeste on Saturday. There were school volunteers selling cupcakes and sausages to voters.
Mr. Minns voted in his ultra-suburban South Sydney seat of Kogarah, flanked by his wife Anna and their three sons.
“Vote for a new start for NSW, our party has a plan for essential services like schools and hospitals, we will stand up to privatization and put the people of New South Wales first,” he said, promising something new.
Meanwhile, federal independent MP Fowler Dai Lee believes it is a hangover from the strict Covid-19 lockdown that affected the Sydney community during the Coalition-led New South Wales administration.
“At the time we were talking about how we were treated as second-class citizens,” he told ABC-TV. “I think our community is still scarred by that, and so there’s a feeling among a lot of people that we’re really neglected by the government”.
