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A new era as Minns gets Labor home

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A third of the nearly 400,000 public sector workers across New South Wales are women, and a third are aged under 35 — they are now seen as the "biggest supporters of the red side of politics."

Labor premier-elect Chris Minns is getting to work while the Liberals sweat on the outcome of close counts in several NSW seats and consider their future.

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

Unions urge incoming premier Chris Minns to overhaul working conditions for frontline workers

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.

Byelections for leaders are rather like steeplechases for horses: there is always the risk of serious injury.

The Liberals were left soul-searching in the Hunter and across NSW after a dismal showing at the polls which some party members blamed on a drift to the left.