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Former SA independent senator Nick Xenophon has become the new mouthpiece of Chinese telco giant Huawei who he believes has been treated unfairly.
Notes on Adelaide
In today’s Notes on Adelaide, a former Liberal political candidate and senior adviser to Christopher Pyne joins Steven Marshall’s office, the official end for “Nick Xenophon’s” SA Best and two former South Australian politicians get plum postings from the Federal Government.
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Nick Xenophon has broken his public silence to strongly endorse his former federal colleague Skye Kakoschke-Moore, who was today announced as his former party’s lead Senate candidate – closing the door on a shock Canberra comeback after his failed foray into state politics.
Nick Xenophon is unlikely to play a starring role in Rebekha Sharkie’s bid to retain the South Australian seat of Mayo in an upcoming by-election.
Nick Xenophon’s name will be expunged from the parties he founded, with the former senator’s name to be dropped from SA Best and his federal ‘Team’ seeking a radical rebrand to become the “Centre Alliance”.
In the second and final part of his analysis of what went wrong with Nick Xenophon’s tilt for state parliament, Haydon Manning – a quasi-insider in the SA Best campaign – reveals how the party leader had given up hope for his own election weeks out from polling day.
