LNP and Nat members are probably safer being an independent vs becoming collateral damage next election.
He will actually make a good Independent MP.
He won’t be the last.
The National Archives of Australia has released federal cabinet papers from 2002.
Wow 1/31! Great odds! And that was John Gorton and even then he had to transfer to the lower house seat of Higgins which was held by Harold Holt before he vanished.
As for Stoker, she might be well regarded by the cronies in the LNP but no one else in Queensland gives two hoots and her political views are pretty vile and disgraceful anyway. Not a loss to the Senate or the parliament in general.
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A sad loss. Condolences to his family
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So popular and highly regarded she was plonked into an unwinnable spot on the senate ticket.
She’s welcome to run again any time she wants, she’s a walking vote magnet for Labor, Teals and Greens just like that Deeves woman.
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I’ve been told form reliable sources that the NSW Libs have sounded out Peta Credlin about filling Jim Molan’s senate seat
Surely not…
She is too busy with her Sky News show
Wasn’t there the same rumour before the last federal and Victorian election?
The Victorian election results should make it clear once and for all, how little influence she has outside of her echo chamber.
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There was also some reporting today that there is a bit of a move to try and get Marise Payne to vacate her seat as well (after the NSW State Election).
Katherine Deves name keeps coming up as the person towards the top of the list to take the vacancy - they couldnt lurch further more if they tried.
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Why do the Liberals keep wanting to make her a thing in federal politics? She’s what’s wrong with the current crop of Liberals in federal politics.
She’s more suited to the likes of One Nation and United Australia with all the claptrap and arrogance associated with her.
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Rubbish.
Trust a lefty to want the Liberals to be well… left.
They never win from the centre left.
Abbott ripped Labor apart from the right.
You of course will say times have changed since then, but I beg to differ.
A conviction poli from the right is the Liberals best chance. The poli in question just needs the guts to call out the mainstream (left) media in a respectable way.
That’s Labor’s own fault with Gillard and Rudd constantly knifing each other and Abbott capitalised on that.
And remember what happened to Abbott? Got knifed by Turnbull who was from the centre (or in your imaginary world, the far left) and then lost his seat to Zali Steggall in 2019. Trust the people of Warringah to see through the piece of crap Abbott was in parliament, and that seat has been Liberal through and through so it must say something when they disposed the member they’ve voted for 25 years.
No one is asking Liberal Party to be a carbon copy of the Labor Party. Centre-right is their position so they need to focus on that. They say you don’t win from the fringes, only from the centre. Leave the ultra-right wing stuff to United Australia and One Nation and if they’re really as mainstream as you suggest then let’s see if they can win government.
Well Deves didn’t even win her seat and the likes of Kevin Andrews on the far-right lost pre-selection to a newbie in Menzies so that says a lot about these so-called ‘conviction pollies’.
I feel like we need some full on far lefties on this forum to counter some of the far-right nonsense we’ve been seeing recently.
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Comrade,
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Need to be more RED for the ‘Media Spy Woke Communist Revolution’.
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Yes, that famous leftie Rupert Murdoch, who owns half of Australia’s newspapers and the most right wing news channel in the southern hemisphere. And that other notorious communist Peter Costello who owns the other half of the Australian press. Mate, pull the other one.
Greens? Or are they too right wing for you? 
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