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A third letter of concern claims Pesutto hasn’t offered to resolve her complaint, which stems from the fallout after an anti-trans rally outside the Victorian parliament in March. The event was attended by neo-Nazis – who anti-trans activists say were gatecrashing – and who performed the Sieg Heil salute on the front steps of parliament.
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Pesutto’s office declined to comment when approached by AAP on Saturday afternoon.
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The legal letter alleges Pesutto made “baseless and false” imputations about Deeming at a press conference in March, including accusing her of being a Nazi sympathiser and associate.
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Pesutto has previously denied he accused the now-independent MP of being a Nazi or having Nazi sympathies.
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Deeming was initially suspended from the Liberal party for nine months after taking part in the rally and was eventually expelled in May.
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AAP has seen a copy of the third letter of concern sent by Deeming’s lawyers on 14 July.
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The letter claims Pesutto has not offered to make amends since a first letter of concern was sent several months ago.
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It includes an offer to resolve the dispute if he agrees, within a week, to never repeat statements made about Deeming and several other demands.
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The requests also include paying her legal costs, handing over compensation and signing a letter of apology to be displayed prominently on his website and social media platforms for 14 days.
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The letter comes six weeks out from the upcoming byelection in the state seat of Warrandyte, triggered by the resignation of veteran Liberal MP Ryan Smith.
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Fire Rescue NSW has said it as finally extinguished the fire in the scrap metal yard in the Sydney suburb of Greenacre.
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The fire in the Claremont St scrap metal yard was contained at around 2pm, though salvage efforts are continuing, according to a series of updates through the Fire Rescue NSW social media channels.
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Roads are being reopened and the smoke has dissipated, with firefighters placing booms over drains to filter water runoff.
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Forty firefighters and 10 vehicles attended the incident.
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No injuries were reported.
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Six fire trucks and 22 firefighters are working to contain a blaze in a scrap metal yard in the Sydney suburb of Greenacre, Fire Rescue NSW have said.
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Firefighters have water on the fire in the scrap metal yard at Claremont Ave, the agency said, and on-site personnel are using an excavator to help firefighters.
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In a tweet this morning, Fire Rescue advised people to steer clear and keep windows closed:
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The fire is causing large volumes of smoke in the area. Avoid the area and if close by close doors, windows and vents.
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Jim Chalmers is speaking to ABC TV about the Fadden byelection. The key message is that Labor intends to focus on cost-of-living pressures, but they have “realistic expectations” about a strongly held Coalition seat.
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He says:
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It’s a super safe blue ribbon LNP seat. This hasn’t exactly been Labor heartland for us federally on the northern Gold Coast, but we put forward this quite magnificent local champion in Letitia Del Fabbro, a nurse educator. A wonderful candidate.
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We’re focused on what matters most for people on the northern Gold Coast, these cost-of-living pressures we are providing assistance with. We’re also trying to clean up the mess left behind by Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison and the LNP.
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We’re focused on the right issues. We have a wonderful candidate but have realistic expectations about a double-digit LNP seat in a blue ribbon area.
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The LNP candidate for the federal seat of Fadden vying to replace former Coalition minister Stuart Robert says voters are focused on cost of living issues, AAP reports.
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Cameron Caldwell, who is the favourite to win the by-election in the northern Gold Coast electorate, cast his vote with his wife, Lauren, at a polling booth on Saturday morning.
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Asked if Robert’s involvement in the robodebt scandal that engulfed the previous Liberal-Nationals federal government was impacting voters, he said they have other things on their minds, such as cost of living and crime.
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Caldwell told Sky News:
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Those are issues that are really starting to bite in their households and it’s whether people can put food on the table and keep the lights switched on.
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That’s really what’s on their mind as they walk into the polling booth today.
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The LNP held the seat with a margin of 10.6% under Robert, whose resignation from parliament in May triggered the by-election.
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Labor says it will be extraordinarily difficult to wrest the Queensland seat of Fadden from the Coalition.
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Voting has already begun in the Gold Coast seat with LNP candidate Cameron Caldwell the strong favourite to win.
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The byelection was triggered by the resignation of former minister Stuart Robert, who held the seat at the 2022 election with a 10.6% margin.
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Despite Labor’s targeting of Robert in advertising highlighting his role in the robodebt scandal, the party is talking down the prospects of a win.
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The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, who also hails from Queensland, will be handing out how-to-vote cards for candidate Letitia Del Fabbro.
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“It’s going to be extraordinarily difficult,” he told The Conversation.
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“Despite the fact that we’ve got a wonderful candidate in Letitia Del Fabbro, I don’t think anybody expects that seat to change hands and that’s because by-elections are good for oppositions rather than for governments.”
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Labor pulled off a shock byelection win in the Victorian Liberal seat of Aston in April.
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Prime minister Anthony Albanese was less confident his party could pull off a similar victory.
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“I don’t expect anything like the Aston by-election result,” he told reporters in Jordan Springs, New South Wales, yesterday.
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“That was an extraordinary result, the first time in 100 years that the government have won a seat off the opposition.”
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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has urged voters to “look forward, not back”, pointing to government inaction on the cost of living and crime as key issues.
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The Greens, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and the Australian Democrats are also contesting the seat, with 13 candidates on the ballot paper.
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Robert served as the veterans’ affairs, national disability insurance scheme and government services minister under the Turnbull and Morrison governments.
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Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster have written to the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, accusing the mining company BHP of “environmental racism” and urging the UK government to act on unethical practices by British companies.
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About 720,000 Brazilians are suing BHP, an Anglo-Australian company that until recently had its headquarters in London, over its role in the 2015 Mariana dam disaster. The company denies liability. It is facing claims for compensation amounting to £36bn in the world’s largest group claim in English legal history.
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In November 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, which BHP co-owned with the Brazilian iron ore producer Vale, burst. It unleashed 60m cubic metres of toxic waste, which obliterated land below and polluted everything in its path for more than 600km.
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Here’s the full story:
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Good morning. I’m Martin Farrer and welcome to our live coverage of the day’s news, which will be dominated by the Fadden byelection. I’ll be bringing you some of the main overnight news lines before Stephanie Convery settles into the hot seat for the rest of the day.
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Voters go to the polls today in the Fadden byelection in Queensland. The consensus seems to be that this contest in a Liberal seat sparked by the resignation of Stuart Robert won’t see the kind of upset that saw Labor win Aston in outer Melbourne earlier this year. In fact, the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, was talking down Labor’s chances. But Paul Karp, our chief political correspondent, writes today that it will nevertheless tells us quite a lot – chiefly whether voters are ready to start blaming Labor for the cost of living crisis or whether they’re still happy to stick it to the Coalition.
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The subtext to the changing of the guard at the Reserve Bank is the punishing interest rate hikes presided over by the outgoing governor, Philip Lowe, and the resulting cost of living crisis. People are doing it tough all over Australia and our reporters have been out in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to test the mood among people struggling to make ends meet. Food banks have never been busier and, as one hard-hit person tells us, “without them I’d be starving”.
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China has no hope of being accepted into a major regional trade pact in the near term, the Australian government has signalled, as members prepare to welcome the UK into the fold today. The assistant trade minister, Tim Ayres, is visiting New Zealand for a meeting with fellow members of the CPTPP with the UK due to be formally accepted as the 12th member as it “tilts” towards the Pacific.
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Stephanie Convery
I’m going to hand you over to my colleague Jordyn Beazley now. Thanks for your company!
Moira Deeming gives John Pesutto legal ultimatum
Former Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming has given opposition leader John Pesutto seven more days to respond to a legal ultimatum or face defamation action in court, AAP reports.
A third letter of concern claims Pesutto hasn’t offered to resolve her complaint, which stems from the fallout after an anti-trans rally outside the Victorian parliament in March. The event was attended by neo-Nazis – who anti-trans activists say were gatecrashing – and who performed the Sieg Heil salute on the front steps of parliament.
Pesutto’s office declined to comment when approached by AAP on Saturday afternoon.
The legal letter alleges Pesutto made “baseless and false” imputations about Deeming at a press conference in March, including accusing her of being a Nazi sympathiser and associate.
Pesutto has previously denied he accused the now-independent MP of being a Nazi or having Nazi sympathies.
Deeming was initially suspended from the Liberal party for nine months after taking part in the rally and was eventually expelled in May.
AAP has seen a copy of the third letter of concern sent by Deeming’s lawyers on 14 July.
The letter claims Pesutto has not offered to make amends since a first letter of concern was sent several months ago.
It includes an offer to resolve the dispute if he agrees, within a week, to never repeat statements made about Deeming and several other demands.
The requests also include paying her legal costs, handing over compensation and signing a letter of apology to be displayed prominently on his website and social media platforms for 14 days.
The letter comes six weeks out from the upcoming byelection in the state seat of Warrandyte, triggered by the resignation of veteran Liberal MP Ryan Smith.
Blaze extinguished at south-west Sydney scrap metal yard
Fire Rescue NSW has said it as finally extinguished the fire in the scrap metal yard in the Sydney suburb of Greenacre.
The fire in the Claremont St scrap metal yard was contained at around 2pm, though salvage efforts are continuing, according to a series of updates through the Fire Rescue NSW social media channels.
Roads are being reopened and the smoke has dissipated, with firefighters placing booms over drains to filter water runoff.
Forty firefighters and 10 vehicles attended the incident.
No injuries were reported.
Joey Lynch
Can the Matildas actually win the World Cup?
After defeating France 1-0 on Friday, the next time the Matildas take the field will be in front of 80,000 people at Stadium Australia for the first game of their 2023 Women’s World Cup against the Republic of Ireland. With another win over a European powerhouse under their belt, the question now is: can the Matildas actually win the tournament?
More on this story here:
Fans gather in red to enjoy the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever
Today, also, is the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever – the day when people around Australia dress up in red and dance to Kate Bush’s 1978 hit, Wuthering Heights.
The red is in homage to the original film clip for the song, which sees Bush dancing about the countryside in a gauzy, floaty bright red gown.
Triple J counts down Hottest 100 Like A Version
The national broadcaster’s youth radio station, Triple J, has been counting down the top 100 cover songs recorded over the past 19 years in its weekly Like A Version segment.
Like its major annual poll, the Hottest 100, the songs are voted by listeners.
They’re currently into the 70s, with Julia Jacklin’s version of Someday, originally by the Strokes, coming in at 79.
Is it possible to keep jet lag at bay?
Know someone heading off to – sigh – Europe this winter? Send them this handy guide to keeping jet lag at bay. (Or don’t, if you’ve muted them on Instagram and can’t bring yourself to acknowledge their overseas jaunt.)
Peter Hannam
No decision on Australia’s largest power station until after NSW energy review
The New South Wales government says it will hold off any decision about the future of the country’s largest power station until at least next month, after it receives a “health check” on the state’s energy security.
Origin Energy, owner of the 2,880MW Eraring plant near Lake Macquarie, also said on Friday that “nothing had changed” on the plan to shut the coal-fired power station no sooner than August 2025.
Both dismissed a News Corp report on Friday that the government had already decided to operate Eraring beyond 2025 because of delays in the construction of new generation capacity such as Snowy Hydro’s 2.0 project and transmission lines.
A spokesperson for the NSW energy minister, Penny Sharpe, said all options remained on the table, as stated previously. The “arms-length” health check survey of the state’s power sector was still being worked on, the spokesperson said:
Our report is due in early August and the government will consider its response in due course.
More about this issue, from me and Tamsin Rose, here:
Minns to announce memorial for victims of Singleton bus tragedy
More on the New South Wales government committing $1.7m to expand the Singleton Roosters clubhouse and facilities following the bus tragedy that rocked the community in June.
AAP reports the upgrades will include new change rooms, a first-aid room, toilets and internal renovations.
It’s hoped the improvements will support the development of AFL in the Hunter region by providing a venue that can host future regional tournaments.
The expansion will be jointly funded with $250,000 from the AFL and a separate cash commitment by Singleton council.
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, was to attend the first games of the women’s and men’s teams on Saturday afternoon when he will announce plans to build a memorial for those who lost their lives, ensuring their legacy in the community.
This investment recognises the emotional toll of the recent bus tragedy, providing a space for healing and unity within the Singleton community.
Nick McKim condemns imprisonment of environmental activist
The Greens senator Nick McKim has said the imprisonment of an environmental activist in Tasmania on Friday is “manifestly unjust”.
Colette Joan Harmsen, a 47-year-old veterinarian and seasoned “peaceful forest protester” with the Bob Brown Foundation, was sentenced to three months in prison for breaching a suspended sentence for protesting against a mine on the west coast of Tasmania.
Harmsen appeared in Hobart magistrates court on Friday after pleading guilty to four counts of trespassing, as well as other related offences.
Harmsen is the first person to be imprisoned in Tasmania for environmental protesting in more than a decade.
Mckim said on Twitter:
Governments will eventually realise they can’t arrest their way out of the climate and biodiversity crises.
More on the news of Harmsen’s sentence here:
Lizzo pulls out all the stops in Perth as Australia tour kicks off
It’s a sea of sequins and glitter among the audience. The lights go down, and neon red letters fill the screen: “THIS IS A SHOW ABOUT LOVE.”
Lizzo fans, of course, already know what they’re in for: deft lyricism, boundless warmth and pure joy. The US pop star’s last tour, Cuz I Love You Too at the start of 2020, didn’t make it to Perth; for Australia’s west coast, it’s been a long wait.
Friday night at the RAC Arena marks the first Australian show on her Special tour, and her voice fills the room almost instantly, opening with Cuz I Love You. In black leather, under a spectacle of bright red lights, she’s soulful and she’s a force: flanked on either side by her dancers, but undoubtedly the centrepiece.
Read the full review of the first show of Lizzo’s Australian tour here:
Andrew Messenger
‘Birthplace of the nation’ museum set to close its doors
The first museum included on the National Trust register will close its doors at the end of the month, leaving its century-old artefacts of federation locked behind glass until further notice.
The Sir Henry Parkes memorial school of arts is the site of the five-time premier’s famous Tenterfield oration in 1889, regarded as the first direct appeal to the public for an Australian nation-state to unite the colonies.
The National Trust refers to the building as the “birthplace of the nation”, in honour of Parkes’ seminal address.
But the Tenterfield mayor, Bronwyn Petrie, said the council had little choice but to cut nice-to-have services like the museum, given its parlous financial state after years of natural disasters.
Read the full exclusive story here:
Fleur Connick
Inside Cadia, the goldmine at the centre of an environmental dust-up
Deep in the heart of the Cadia Hill goldmine, 1.4km below the surface, heavy machines dump loads of ore into a crusher. On the wall next to the crusher is a ventilation grate, which draws the dust in to a filtration plant and out of the mine’s main vent, “vent rise outlet 8”.
Until May this year, the emissions were vented straight from the ore crusher into the atmosphere. Newcrest, which owns Cadia Valley Operations, has since installed two “bag houses” that catch up to 1 tonne of dust an hour each when operational. The second bag house only came online last month.
The grey dust found in those bags is valuable and may still contain gold. The general manager, Mick Dewar, says they are still trying to decide if that dust will be sent offshore for processing to remove valuable metals, or if it will be dumped in the tailings dam.
Dewar, who led Guardian Australia on the underground tour of the Cadia east mine along with two other senior members of the mine’s staff, says the vent, known as VR8, is “high velocity and it’s coming from a high dust source”.
He says:
It’s got the worst combination, if you like, for the things to be a compliance problem. And this is why we got called out.
Read the full story, with incredible pics from Mike Bowers, here:
Peter Hannam
Why Michele Bullock was picked as the new Reserve Bank governor
When the Albanese government announced Michele Bullock as the next Reserve Bank governor on Friday, few were particularly surprised – and that was the plan.
Sure, the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, got on the front foot the previous day, prematurely warning against choosing a public servant. The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, had shared his shortlist with his shadow, Angus Taylor, but held back Bullock as his pick.
Treasury had been content for pundits to ponder over a handful of likely choices for weeks. Chalmers told Friday’s media briefing he had singled out Bullock, the deputy RBA governor of just 15 months, “for a while now” as the “best person”.
It’s not entirely clear why the incumbent, Philip Lowe, was ruled out for an extension. A narrative set in that Lowe had to go because he had failed to foresee the global inflation rate spiking in 2022.
On that score, no central bank boss would retain his or her job. Nor would private economists who forecast inflation at 4% or less for last year and saw it instead sail past 8% by December. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine just wasn’t among risk parameters.
Chalmers’ choice ultimately hinged on the need for a reformer to implement the many recommendations of the RBA review.
Read the full analysis here:
Firefighters battle south-west Sydney blaze
Six fire trucks and 22 firefighters are working to contain a blaze in a scrap metal yard in the Sydney suburb of Greenacre, Fire Rescue NSW have said.
Firefighters have water on the fire in the scrap metal yard at Claremont Ave, the agency said, and on-site personnel are using an excavator to help firefighters.
In a tweet this morning, Fire Rescue advised people to steer clear and keep windows closed:
The fire is causing large volumes of smoke in the area. Avoid the area and if close by close doors, windows and vents.
Chalmers says consultancy scandal a ‘disgraceful episode’
Chalmers is asked about the PwC and consultancy scandal. He says:
This has been a deplorable, disgraceful episode that compromises our ability to do the kinds of consultations that we need to do to get policies right. … We need to make sure that this doesn’t happen again, because it’s a direct threat to good government, to consultation that we want to see.
Treasurer says he has ‘high regard’ for outgoing RBA chief Philip Lowe
On the replacement of Reserve bank governor Phillip Lowe with Michele Bullock, announced yesterday, Chalmers stands by the work of the former, who has come under fire thanks to the brutal series of interest rate rises under his watch over the past year:
We are professionals. I have a high regard for him and he’s highly regarded internationally. We chose Michele Bullock to take the bank forward but that in no way diminishes the dedication of Philip Lowe.
Jim Chalmers says Labor has ‘realistic expectations’ about Fadden
Jim Chalmers is speaking to ABC TV about the Fadden byelection. The key message is that Labor intends to focus on cost-of-living pressures, but they have “realistic expectations” about a strongly held Coalition seat.
He says:
It’s a super safe blue ribbon LNP seat. This hasn’t exactly been Labor heartland for us federally on the northern Gold Coast, but we put forward this quite magnificent local champion in Letitia Del Fabbro, a nurse educator. A wonderful candidate.
We’re focused on what matters most for people on the northern Gold Coast, these cost-of-living pressures we are providing assistance with. We’re also trying to clean up the mess left behind by Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison and the LNP.
We’re focused on the right issues. We have a wonderful candidate but have realistic expectations about a double-digit LNP seat in a blue ribbon area.
LNP candidate says cost of living main issue for Fadden voters
The LNP candidate for the federal seat of Fadden vying to replace former Coalition minister Stuart Robert says voters are focused on cost of living issues, AAP reports.
Cameron Caldwell, who is the favourite to win the by-election in the northern Gold Coast electorate, cast his vote with his wife, Lauren, at a polling booth on Saturday morning.
Asked if Robert’s involvement in the robodebt scandal that engulfed the previous Liberal-Nationals federal government was impacting voters, he said they have other things on their minds, such as cost of living and crime.
Caldwell told Sky News:
Those are issues that are really starting to bite in their households and it’s whether people can put food on the table and keep the lights switched on.
That’s really what’s on their mind as they walk into the polling booth today.
The LNP held the seat with a margin of 10.6% under Robert, whose resignation from parliament in May triggered the by-election.