Federal election: Hunter electorate grabs the focus, voters rush to pre-poll and the Liberals go quiet in Paterson

Ian Kirkwood
Updated May 23 2022 - 5:35pm, first published May 21 2022 - 4:00am
HUNTER, HUNTED: Labor needs to win seats to form government, but cannot afford to drop seats along the way. Our Saturday snapshot shows, clockwise from top left, Barnaby Joyce at Singleton pre-poll, former Nationals leader and deputy PM John Anderson with James Thomson, a bucolic scene by the lake at Toronto and a bearded Kevin Rudd at Edgeworth on Wednesday night.
HUNTER, HUNTED: Labor needs to win seats to form government, but cannot afford to drop seats along the way. Our Saturday snapshot shows, clockwise from top left, Barnaby Joyce at Singleton pre-poll, former Nationals leader and deputy PM John Anderson with James Thomson, a bucolic scene by the lake at Toronto and a bearded Kevin Rudd at Edgeworth on Wednesday night.

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Ian Kirkwood

Ian Kirkwood

Journalist

Reporting journalist at the Newcastle Herald since 1987. Editorial writer, general reporter, industrial relations, industry and coal.

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