NSW Premier Chris Minns tells Labor it must mount a major campaign effort to prevent One Nation from making gains in the state election. Multiple reports say Minns frames the challenge as difficult and compares it to “climbing Everest.”
Alongside the warning, the articles describe an internal Labor move ahead of the contest. Labor factions reach an eleventh-hour agreement that changes the positioning of candidates on the Legislative Council ticket. In particular, Agriculture Minister Tara Moriarty is reported to be demoted to a more precarious position on the party’s ticket. The sources describe the change as the result of factional bargaining close to the finalisation of the candidate list.
The reporting focuses on both the premier’s electoral message about One Nation’s momentum and the party’s pre-election candidate reshuffle within its upper house slate. No sources presented here provide figures on One Nation’s polling or specific election outcomes, but they consistently link Minns’s warning to the internal ticket changes involving Moriarty.
