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Stephen Bates defeated Liberal-National Party incumbent Trevor Evans in the inner-city seat with 53.5 per cent of the vote with an 8.4 per cent swing to give his party a third lower house seat.
In Byron Bay, where the median house price is $2.8 million, the Greens won 54 per cent of the first-preference vote. The minor party had a vote in the forties in rich suburbs with $3 million houses.
Melbourne seat of Macnamara called for Labor guaranteeing the ALP at least 76 seats in the House of Representatives
Newly-minted Australian Greens MP Stephen Bates has attributed his election success to a vivacious Grindr ad campaign.
Labor's hopes for majority government are now pinned on three electorates after a fourth lower house seat went ...