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The government can pass its signature climate bill and Greens can say they got the next best thing to stopping new coal and gas

Needing 47 seats to form a lower house majority in NSW, Labor remained stuck on 45 on Monday afternoon.

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Vote counting for the New South Wales election will resume this morning and Labor will be keeping an eye on four seats where they have small leads. If they can't form a majority, crossbencher demands will come into play.

Progressive shift in upper house possible while vote for minor parties and independents reaches record levels

Sometimes defeat can come with small victories. In his NSW election concession speech, defeated Liberal-National Coalition Premier Dominic Perrottet remarked the campaign had been a “race to the top”. Voters seemed to agree. Perrottet’s opponent, Labor’s Chris Minns, brought the conciliatory tone he maintained as opposition leader into the campaign.

The Hunter's Labor MPs say they will have strength in numbers when it comes to getting a fair share for the region from the newly elected state government.

The Nationals have failed to regain seats in what was once party heartland in western NSW, as divisions in the Coalition parties come under scrutiny after its NSW election loss.

Labor’s premier-elect describes victory as ‘humbling experience’ that came from having an ‘ear to the ground’ on cost-of-living pressures