Pre-polling has opened in New South Wales ahead of the state election in one week's time, with an estimated 250,000 people expected to cast their votes on day one. See where you can vote early.
Early voting is also available next week from Monday March 20 to Friday March 24. Premier Dominic Perrottet was in Penrith, in Sydney's western suburbs, for the first day of pre-polling on Saturday. Photographer: Christian Anstey.
"We've already reached almost 70,000, so there's strong interest out there," he told Sky News Weekend Live host Jaynie Seal on Saturday morning. "But also, we've had a massive upswing in postal vote applications, so the number of people who will be sent postal votes is more than double than it was in 2019," he said. "It may well be that if seats come down to the wire, no matter what we've counted up on election day and shortly thereafter, it might be those last few postal votes coming in... which will determine the result," he told Seal.
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