Published: May 18, 2019
Independent knocks former prime minister out of parliament with pro-climate action campaign, despite otherwise good night for Coalition
One of the Liberals’ leading conservatives and Australia’s 28th prime minister, Tony Abbott, has lost his blue-ribbon seat of Warringah after moderate Liberal voters abandoned him in protest at the role he played in opposing climate change action.
Abbott lost to the independent candidate and former Olympian Zali Steggall, with the two-party-preferred count showing she was likely to win almost 60% of the vote on a two-party-preferred basis.
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