Liberal Candidate Faces ‘Big Task’ to Achieve 11 Percent Swing in Labor Stronghold

Steve Murphy is targeting the seat of retiring Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas.

The Victorian state Parliament building taken from Bourke Street in the Melbourne CBD, Victoria in Australia. A. Ming/The Epoch Times

The state Liberal Party candidate for the western suburban electorate of Werribee, Steve Murphy, says he has a big task ahead to pry the Labor Party stronghold away from the government.

The seat is up for grabs on Feb. 8 following the retirement of Labor Treasurer Tim Pallas, who, at the 2022 election, secured a primary vote of 17,512 votes (45.36 percent) from the centre-right Liberal’s Mia Shaw, who got 9,779 votes.