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.
Anthony Albanese is now on a salary of $549,250 - marking a 40 per cent increase from his old job as Opposition Leader. This is occurring as the typical Australian worker takes a pay cut with inflation.
AFR Classic | Donald Horne’s verdict on the Canberra press as the worst in 40 years is noteworthy, wrote Gregory Hywood in the Financial Review on June 15, 1990.