Voters Have Kicked Tony Abbott Out Of Parliament
Abbott lost his bid to be re-elected as the member for Warringah, a seat he has held since 1994, to independent candidate Zali Steggall. ABC election analyst Antony Green called the seat for Steggall on Saturday evening.
Abbott was prime minister from 2013 to 2015. He led the Coalition to victory against Kevin Rudd's Labor government, after serving as opposition leader for four years. In Sept. 2015 he was unseated from the prime ministership by party colleague Malcolm Turnbull.Steggall, a lawyer and former Olympian, campaigned for action on climate change and positioned herself as an economic conservative, arguing for tax cuts for family and small business.
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