NSW Election a Brittle Victory for Labor

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese introduces Labor leader and Premier elect Chris Minns at the NSW Labor reception in Sydney, Australia, on March 25, 2023. AAP Image/Dean Lewins

Commentary

The New South Wales (NSW) election involved a decisive shift to the left, but not to the Australian Labor Party (ALP), who appears to have scraped home with perhaps a four-seat majority with 54.3 percent of the two-party preferred vote. This is comfortable but certainly not huge.