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The SMH has some interesting lines from the Liberal candidate in Gilmore, Andrew Constance, who says his party were punished for being too focused on themselves".

While Gilmore remains on a knife-edge, the former state government minister said he was not surprised by the outcome of the election, warning the Liberal party that it needed to refocus on community concerns:

The party has been too introverted and too focused on itself.

It has to recognise its broad-based appeal is not sectional interest. The party exists for the community ... there's no such thing as a heartland" in Australian politics.