This Month
Holmes a Court warns Liberals over net zero
Nationals threats to abandon net zero will be mercilessly exploited by Climate 200 if the seat of Bradfield goes to a fresh vote.
Is that 1 or 7? What the judge will have to decide in Bradfield
Liberal Gisele Kapterian alleges “illegal practices” in her 26-vote loss in the election, and wants a judge to rule on the squiggles on 151 questionable ballots.
Climate 200 to fund teal MP’s defence against Bradfield challenge
Nicolette Boele will have support from Climate 200 to fight off a legal challenge over her nail-biting victory in the Sydney seat of Bradfield.
Teal MP asked ASIO to vet her volunteers
Newly elected Bradfield MP Nicolette Boele told Australia’s domestic intelligence agency she had hundreds of volunteers and did not know them all.
‘Every vote counts’: Liberals mount challenge against Bradfield result
Defeated Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian has petitioned the High Court to re-examine “a small number” of disputed ballot papers.
June
Liberal federal intervention harmed Bradfield run, members say
Panel of NSW Liberal administrators under fire again, this time over alleged delay sharing membership lists with line-ball campaign.
Teal Boele wins Bradfield by 26 votes in election’s tightest race
Nicolette Boele has won the Sydney seat after a see-sawing recount that has ended Gisele Kapterian’s hopes of retaking it for the Liberals – unless she heads to court.
May
Teal Nicolette Boele pulls off miraculous election comeback
Independent candidate for Bradfield Nicolette Boele leads by 40 votes over Gisele Kapterian, meaning only a recount can save the Liberal now.
Nicolette Boele and Gisele Kapterian locked in Bradfield nailbiter
Liberal Gisele Kapterian’s lead over independent Nicolette Boele is less than 100 votes, pointing to possible recount
April
If Dutton’s path to victory cuts through Sydney, he has problems
In conversations with voters from Gordon to Liverpool, cost of living and housing featured again and again – but few blamed Labor and Albanese for the price rises.
Bradfield debate was an agree-a-thon – with one bum note
Teal independent Nicolette Boele and Liberal Gisele Kapterian kept it polite at a Jewish community forum during the close race for Bradfield.
Teal candidate apologises for sexualised joke to teen hairdresser
Teal candidate Nicolette Boele allegedly told a teenage hairdresser her hair wash “was so good and I didn’t even have sex with you”.