Liberal candidate Roshena Campbell has called Labor’s Mary Doyle to concede in Aston – the first time in a century that a sitting government has won a seat from the opposition in a byelection since 1920.
Labor’s Mary Doyle has defeated the Liberals’ Roshena Campbell to snatch the federal seat of Aston in a historic upset win in the crucial byelection in Melbourne’s outer east.
Cheers of “Mary, Mary, Mary” roared across the club in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs just before 9.30pm as Doyle arrived after being in a nearby undisclosed location for the count. Supporters cheered “she bloody did it” and “come on Mary”.Doyle, who was flanked by Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, hugged supporters as she made her way through crowd and people yelled “I love you Mary”.
Addressing Labor faithful, Marles said Doyle’s win was recognition of her values of “decency and hard work.” “I felt a lot of that connection with people when I first stood last year,” Doyle said. “I remember one man coming up to me and saying you just seem like a normal person, a real person.” “Anthony leads a government that Australians can truly be proud of, a government that has hit the ground running, trying to fix a decade of problems and neglect and scheming and rorting from the Coalition.”
“We have been out of government [in Victoria] 20 of the past 24 years. [There’s] a lot of work ahead of us to listen to the messages sent to us today from the people of Aston, but listen to them, we will,” Dutton said. Some Liberal figures at the election night event were critical of those running the Victorian division labelling them “freaks”.as a distraction after it was raised by Dutton in the federal partyroom.“Victoria is a very difficult market for us,” he said, adding it was “quite remarkable” that the Victorian Liberal party had not been in government at the state level for almost a quarter of a century.
When asked about the Deeming saga, Tehan said the key for any political party is “not to be talking about yourself”. The Monkey Pod factional grouping of conservative MPs are deeply loyal to Dutton and eat lunch together when parliament sits in a room in Parliament House named after a table made of Monkey Pod wood.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited the Bayswater Primary School polling station on Saturday morning.“We need courage, you need a grand narrative, you need ideas. Whereas Albo’s people can say there’s 10 or 12 things they’re doing.”
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