Sad images are emerging from inside the Liberal HQ in Sydney — while Labor’s launch has attracted a full house.
Sad images are emerging from inside the Liberal HQ in Sydney — while Labor’s launch has attracted a full house.
The Coalition has booked out a room in the Sofitel Hotel to watch the results come in, but even at almost 8pm live images on TV show there is hardly anybody there.
A side-by-side image on Channel 9 showed that, at the same time, Labor’s election night event was packed out.
Online and print journalists were also not allowed into the Liberal event until 8.30pm.
Reporters who have managed to get in have shared images of the sparsely-populated room.
Both Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese have chosen to watch the results roll in from the comfort of their homes.
The Prime Minister has returned to Kirribilli House with his wife Jenny, daughters and some friends.
Mr Albanese is watching the votes come in at his home in Marrickville with his girlfriend Jodie Haydon and dog Toto.
With the early results in, many — including Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles —
are predicting a long night with no clear winner emerging thus far.
“I fundamentally think this is going to be a really close election. I think it will be a very long night,’’ Mr Marles told ABC.
“Federal elections are generally close. We feel we are competitive, but we are coming out of this – out of a pandemic where – around the world and around Australia and that has been a situation which has favoured incumbents, and so this is a pretty big mountain for us to climb, but we feel we put forward an alternative that the Australian people have been crying out for and we are hopeful.”
