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UPDATED | The failed challenger in a “sullied” Labor preselection ballot has fired a parting shot at the party’s “factional brutality”, while two former ministers today quit the ALP to revive the Evangelical-inspired Family First political brand.
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A pair of former Labor ministers are quitting the party to reanimate the defunct Family First brand – with an aim to win an Upper House seat at next year’s state election.
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Family First will cease operating from today after the party agreed to join Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives, but the “merger” has cost the group a federal senator.
South Australia’s newest senator Lucy Gichuhi has promised to take advice “from all corners” of politics when voting on key issues before the federal parliament.
Kenyan-born lawyer Lucy Gichuhi has been confirmed as South Australia’s new senator after the High Court rejected a late challenge by Labor.
Former Family First senator Bob Day was ineligible to have been elected, the High Court has ruled today.
