As cheers and horns sounded across the Labor camp in northern Sydney, the Liberal faithful gathered 10 kilometres away in the CBD watched on with blank disbelief as their leader Scott Morrison conceded the end of a decade-long Coalition reign.
Slumped down with his hands on his knees, one Liberal supporter pursed his lips as former treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced his re-election was “definitely difficult” in the face of a strong independent swing.
