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A prominent welfare agency leader and critic of the Marshall Government’s recent homelessness reforms is looming as the likely Labor challenger for the key federal SA seat of Boothby, InDaily understands.
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Outgoing federal Liberal MP Nicolle Flint has savaged her party’s moderate faction amid internal rancour following a weekend preselection to anoint her successor – as Labor’s Right-wing settles on its own candidate for one of the state’s safest seats.
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A former federal hopeful and a current senate candidate will face off for Liberal preselection in the marginal SA seat of Boothby – but they could both face strong competition from a political cleanskin who is expected to garner the backing of the party’s Right faction.
UPDATED | A Marshall Government minister is among several Liberal contenders considering a run at Nicolle Flint’s soon-to-be-vacated federal seat of Boothby, but the Labor candidate who almost snared the seat at the last election has ruled herself out of a second crack.
Labor’s conceding defeat in the battle for the crucial Adelaide seat of Boothby has helped propel Scott Morrison and the re-elected Coalition to expected majority government following Saturday’s surprise election result.
Labor’s Nadia Clancy has conceded defeat in the battle for the Adelaide-based seat of Boothby with Liberal MP Nicolle Flint set to be returned to Canberra.
While Bill Shorten has ditched the “small target” strategy adopted by opposition parties since Fightback cost John Hewson government in 1993, Scott Morrison has moved to shrug off the fractious Abbott/Turnbull years and position himself as a Liberal leader worthy of support, argues Haydon Manning
