Sydney voters have delivered a damning rejection of Australia's Government and its new Prime Minister with the Liberal Party about to lose a seat it's held since 1901.
The by-election in Malcolm Turnbull's old seat is coming down to postal votes but an Independent is on the verge of victory and the Government's majority is at risk.
A fist in the air for the rank outsider and a middle finger to the Government itself.
After an historic by-election in Wentworth Australia's Coalition Government is on the brink.
On the verge of losing to Independent Kerryn Phelps in an unprecedented swing.
Ms Phelps said if she won the seat of Wentworth it would make history, and my friends, we have made history.
It's one of the richest seats in the country and one the Liberal Party has never lost.
A bellweather since Australia's federation all the way back to 1901.
But this was the seat of Malcolm Turnbull, a popular leader the Liberals pushed out.
Now the ghost of Turnbull haunts them and Wentworth voters won't forget.
A result so incredible that just for a moment Phelps forgot which seat she was in.
"Thank you for the people of Waringah, of Wentworth," she said.
Waringah is Tony Abbott's electorate. Another Prime Minister thrown out by a spill.
That seat is at risk at the next election but the Liberal Party's problems are bigger than that.
Scott Morrison said the Liberal party has paid a "big price tonight for the events of a few months ago."
That price could see the Government totally neutered, losing its majority in the Lower House.
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