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.
Nimbin, a northern NSW town with a Hemp Embassy, turned on the Greens - with a 19 per cent swing against them. This occurred as the Greens won Byron Bay and inner-city booths.
Labor is increasingly becoming the party of well-off electorates near the city centre (Toorak mansion pictured) while the Liberal Party represents less fashionable outer suburbs in the mortgage belt.
Labor is still agonisingly short of the 76 seats required for majority government, but ALP insiders are confident the party will reach the target and won’t need to negotiate with the crossbench.