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Alex Mitchell and Tom Wark

Leaders tested as gun fired in race for seaside seat

Katelin McInerney has been confirmed as Labor's candidate in the Kiama by-election. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

An unusual by-election is looming as the first real test of an opposition leader's ambitions to become premier of his state.

NSW Labor on Thursday confirmed former journalist and union official Katelin McInerney as its candidate bidding to win the coastal seat of Kiama on September 13 and inch the party closer to majority government.

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