Making too many assumptions about what the Upper Hunter byelection might mean for the future of the Labor Party is not without its dangers. But not as dangerous as drawing no lessons at all.
In Singleton last Saturday – in the heart of the Hunter’s coal country – the Labor Party secured a little more than 20 per cent of the primary vote. At the 2015 NSW state election it was 36 per cent.
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Joel Fitzgibbon is chair of the Australian Forest Products Association.
