Last-ditch campaign blitz: Dominic Perrottet’s dash across Sydney to shore up support
The final push to win NSW has begun as the Premier and his challenger spend election eve crisscrossing Sydney hoping to secure swinging seats and seal support in others.
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The Premier has started election eve sandbagging Liberal northern Sydney seats and dashing to Penrith in a last ditch campaign blitz.
Dominic Perrottet started the morning talking to voters at pre-polling centres in Willoughby and North Shore, where Liberal candidates are under threat from community backed independents.
In North Shore, where Perrottet was joined by wife Helen, daughter Celeste and candidate Felicity Wilson, an aggressive anti-vaxxer confronted the Premier causing chaos at the voting booth.
Yelling at the Premier about vaccine mandates, the man also became physical with media and grabbed a photographer’s camera.
Other than the brief disturbance, which the Premier dutifully ignored, he spent the time handing out how to votes to early voters.
Teal independent Helen Conway said she was not surprised to see the Premier, given the teal wave in the federal election.
“People are saying to me they’ve never seen the Premier and the Treasurer in this seat so often,” Ms Conway said.
“What I see is people want change.”
Mr Perrottet has also spent time boosting at-risk ex-minister Stuart Ayres in Penrith, which is on a razor thin margin of 0.6 per cent.
Meanwhile Labor leader Chris Minns spent the morning pushing his “fresh start” approach at Sydney Markets in Homebush.
He also visited voters in Ryde and Parramatta – both Liberal seats that Labor think they can turn.
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