The seat of Brisbane remained on a knife’s edge late Thursday, as Labor and the Greens battled it out for second place to claim the electorate on preferences.
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.
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