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Flat White

EXCLUSIVE: What you haven’t read about Eden-Monaro and the Labor leadership

5 July 2020

12:04 PM

5 July 2020

12:04 PM

Labour appears to have won the Eden-Monaro by-election. Appears to have. That’s about as strong as we can get — and utter disaster for Anthony Albanese. He needed an emphatic victory; a substantive swing.

There were two forces at work in the campaign; the physical, environmental and economic devastation wrought across the electorate by last summer’s fires and the coronavirus crisis.

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