Jim Chalmers says anything less than a 4% swing against the government would be embarrassing for the opposition leader, Peter Dutton
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The Fadden byelection’s main candidates said voters were focused on cost of living issues before polls closed in their battle to replace the former Coalition minister Stuart Robert.
The Liberal National party’s Cameron Caldwell, who was the favourite to win the byelection in the northern Gold Coast electorate, cast his vote with his wife, Lauren, at a polling booth on Saturday morning.
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