00:00for Labor, others not so much. Chris, what's your read on the early stuff?
00:07Kieran, far too early for us here to get any read on those numbers. We'll leave that to you guys
00:12there where the numbers are coming in. I've got to tell you here in this room, it's really filled
00:17up now with a lot of Labor Party staffers, Labor Party volunteers, a lot of people in their red
00:22t-shirts here. The nervous energy is just palpable. Nobody's celebrating, nobody's getting ahead of
00:28themselves. Of course, they've all been working so hard. Of course, they know they're the front
00:32runners, but what happened to them three years ago, of course, looms so large over this gathering.
00:37You can just feel it in this room. I wanted to talk about it now because it may change dramatically
00:42over the next hour or so. Nicholas Rees, you've got a lot of... Even I have some mates out there
00:47in the Labor camp, but you know a lot of people in this room and Jeepers, they're clenching every
00:52muscle in their face, aren't they? Just hanging on to that energy. I'm surprised how many people
00:57you seem to be friends with at this function here tonight, Chris, but I think you're getting the
01:00stink eye from one or two as well. More than the stink eye, I tell you. But look, there's a couple
01:04of hundred people now in this Canterbury RSL and nervous energy is what is really the overwhelming
01:12emotion in the room. Everybody glued to their phones as numbers are starting to come in from
01:16scrutineers. Some interesting results coming in that I have seen in the seat of Chisholm.
01:22It looks like there's been a 6% swing against Gladys Liu, but 3% going to the Labor candidate.
01:30Early results there. Also, I'm hearing some very, very strong results are coming through
01:34for Monique Ryan in Kooyong. So those numbers are starting to come through now, and I would
01:40say in the next 30 minutes or so, we'll start to get a real sense of what is happening.
01:45One aside, Kieran, is I heard from the seat of Wentworth in Sydney, of course, where Dave
01:49Sharma is facing that big challenge from Allegra Spender, one of these teal independents,
01:55so-called fake independents. And there's some pictures circulating suggesting that the Allegra
02:00Spender volunteers were handing out how to vote cards for the Greens, which just confirms
02:07what we thought about those teal independents, I think. And there'll be a lot of people talking
02:11about those sorts of tricks in the coming days, I suppose.
02:14Nick Rees, thank you both. Andrew Clennell, we're starting to see some significant numbers
02:21coming in in various seats, as we heard there in Chisholm. I think it's an interesting one
02:25we'll get to in a moment. But the seat of Reid in Sydney, we've been talking that as a Labor
02:30prospect. Tom Connell's early numbers suggested that's on track. Chisholm, Reid, both sort of
02:37inner-suburban, they're not really outer-suburban areas, but, you know, aspirational, both have
02:44a large Chinese-Australian population as well.
02:46Well, this is the point. There are four seats, which could flip, that have large Chinese-Australian
02:52populations against the government. They are Bennelong, Reid, Banks and Chisholm. Now, I said
02:57Labor needs net five to get to government. That's four of them, potentially. And you're seeing
03:02swings very early, as I say. A caution again, although I'm...
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