00:00Can I give you a how to vote card?
00:04Making a pitch for every vote, then a nervous wait to see who gets the last laugh.
00:11The separate contests in Melbourne's West and South East have sharpened attention on
00:15the state's biggest issues.
00:17There's an opportunity to sort of spend some money redeveloping public areas.
00:21Definitely crime.
00:22Chapel Street's gotten a bit dodgy lately.
00:24In Victoria's smallest electorate of Prahran, which Labor didn't contest, Green's newcomer
00:29Angelica DiCamillo is trying to hold the seat her party first won in 2014.
00:35Rachel Westerway wants to clinch it back for the Liberals, helped by former Labor MP Tony
00:40Lupton, who is directing preferences her way.
00:43I voted Greens primarily because I'd like to see influence coming in apart from the
00:47two main parties.
00:49This was the road out of the busiest polling booth in Werribee.
00:52Overburdened infrastructure in Melbourne's booming West, a key concern on locals' minds.
00:57My partner drives on that freeway all the time and to see the traffic banked up is just
01:02shocking and they need to fix it.
01:03People who are looking to buy a first house, they're struggling.
01:07I've got three kids, so you can imagine just the costs in general.
01:11A dozen candidates are vying for their votes.
01:13The seat has long been a Liberal free zone, and teacher and CFA volunteer John Lister
01:19is the Labor Party's hope of keeping it that way.
01:22He will be a strong local voice for Werribee in the parliament.
01:26Liberal estate agent Steve Murphy wants to turn the seat blue and doesn't believe living
01:30in Essendon has hurt his chances.
01:33I've lived, worked here, raised my kids here over 30 years.
01:38Given Labor's significant majority in the lower house, today's polls won't dramatically
01:42change the machinations of parliament, but that doesn't mean they're inconsequential.
01:47A significant swing against Labor in a seat like Werribee will set alarm bells ringing
01:51ahead of next year's state election.
01:53The stakes are high for the Liberals too.
01:55This is the first electoral test of the party's new leader.
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