The major parties and teal independents are at loggerheads over a pre-election redistribution of federal electorates in NSW which, Labor says, has the potential to affect the boundaries of the majority of seats in the state and, hence, the outcome of the next election,

Based on population growth projections, NSW, the nation’s most populous state, will have the number of electorates cut from 47 to 46 before the next election, with the Australian Electoral Commission to make a final decision by the second quarter of 2024.