ABC election pundit Antony Green calls win for Labor-Greens coalition on Saturday night
Australia’s “for ever government” has lived up to its name, with Labor retaining power to extend its record reign in the ACT beyond a quarter of a century.
“We will take the progressive, practical and proven policies we have taken to this election and enact them in government with the support, I hope, of a progressive crossbench that sees value in investing in public housing, public health and public education,” he said after triumphing in Saturday’s election.
Lee gave no indication of whether she would step down after conceding defeat. “A few moments ago I made … a call I wish I did not have to make,” she told thefaithful. “But today the people of the ACT have spoken. They have voted for change, but perhaps not quite enough to get us there. By comparison, the Greens suffered a smaller swing against them of 1.1% but shed half their seats due to the vagaries of the ACT’s Hare-Clark voting system. Much of the vote share lost by Labor and the Greens was soaked up by independents rather than the opposition. The Murrumbidgee candidate Fiona Carrick and Thomas Emerson, in the central Canberra seat of Kurrajong, are due to become the first independents elected to the assembly since 1998.
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