This has a major impact on Hughes' margin as Liberal voting areas are removed ... Vale saw off the airport, and saw off high profile Labor candidate David Hill at the 1998 election.

Labor candidate for Hughes, David Moncrieff ... had previously made highly offensive comments about former Liberal prime ministers and the Catholic Church.

Britton, who has since launched an independent campaign for the safe Labor seat of Whitlam in the NSW Illawarra region, was dumped by the Liberal Party after it was revealed he had expressed a “string ...