Michael Danby, Mark Dreyfus and Joshua Frydenberg -- all from Melbourne -- emerged victorious in Saturday’s ballot. But neither the incumbent Labor Party nor the opposition Liberal Party managed to muster the 76 seats required for an outright majority in the 150-seat House of Representatives, prompting the probability of the first hung parliament in 70 years. Early voting and mail-in votes could yet prove pivotal, according to observers.
Danby, a Labor lawmaker who has been Israel’s most ardent advocate in parliament, served as the only Jewish federal lawmaker between 1996 and 2007, when Dreyfus was first elected, also to Labor."
