Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull reacts as he walks with officials and security personnel to a media conference announcing Australia's national security plan to protect public places in central Sydney, Australia, August 20, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Voters began casting ballots in a Sydney by-election on Saturday that could determine the future of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who is hoping to regain his parliamentary majority and safeguard his leadership.
The election campaign in the blue-ribbon Sydney seat of Bennelong has been bitterly fought between the centre-right government's candidate, former tennis star John Alexander, and the Labor opposition's Kristina Keneally, a high-profile former premier of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state.
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