Politics
Failed Liberal by-election candidate Georgina Downer will face a preselection challenge for Mayo, with a local branch member telling a meeting of party members last night he will contest the ballot.
Politics
An adviser to SA Labor frontbencher Katrine Hildyard is set to take on Nicolle Flint in the state’s only marginal federal seat, InDaily understands, as both major parties prepare the ground for a looming general election.
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The Liberals’ enthusiastic gambit in Mayo was meant to return a blue-ribbon seat to the fold – but it could end up entrenching a third-party MP there for a generation, writes Tom Richardson.
Labor’s new candidate for the crucial Mayo by-election says he’d be happy to see former Xenophon ally Rebekha Sharkie returned in the Adelaide Hills-based seat, declaring his prime aim is to keep it out of the hands of the “Downer dynasty”.
SA Labor has been forced to rule out at least two prospective candidates for the Mayo by-election because of citizenship concerns, InDaily can reveal, while insiders are not sold on the candidacy of Alice Dawkins, the daughter of a former federal Treasurer.
Senator Nick Xenophon says former Prime Minister John Howard’s attack on him shows how “panicked” the Liberals have become about the threat posed by his candidates.
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