Liberals expect their Cook candidate Simon Kennedy to have an easy time retaining Scott Morrison’s old blue-ribbon seat when voters there head to a by-election poll on April 13.
Labor declined to run a candidate, meaning Kennedy will face off against five mostly unknown rivals.
No party has wrested Cook from the Liberals since the party first won the seat in 1975.
Morrison, who was prime minister from 2018 to the Coalition’s 2022 loss, announced his retirement from politics earlier this year. He remains more popular in his local area than he was in the rest of the country, local Liberals say (even if there were reportedly a less-than-ideal number of RSVPs at his now
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