“Elder’s just a name”: Digance looks across ‘invisible boundary’ as key MPs bow out

EXCLUSIVE: Labor’s factional machine is whirring into top gear as two MPs prepare to bow out – one within days, prompting a casual vacancy in the Upper House. The shock retirement, effective this month, of Legislative Councillor Gerry Kandelaars comes as first-term right-winger Annabel Digance today confirmed she is contemplating crossing the “invisible border” to contest Badcoe, conceding a planned redistribution has made her seat of Elder “a challenge”.