The NSW by-election for the state seat of Upper Hunter was yet another warning that Federal Labor will stay in the doldrums as long its climate-action policy opposes coal mining.
Labor was not going to win the seat, which it hasn’t held in a hundred years. However, the 7 per cent fall in Labor’s vote to 21.2 per cent was the third consecutive decline in the Hunter region over the last three state and federal elections.
Even the sex scandal that precipitated the by-election had little i…
