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Update 2pm: Now Bob Katter’s office says he was only “speaking figuratively” about being punched on election night.
Update 12.15pm: Bob Katter has just claimed he was punched on election night, but it’s not clear if he was suggesting it was by a member of the Coalition.
Update 12pm: Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan has outed himself as the maker of the “it’s the devil” call to Rob Oakeshott. Fairfax’s Phil Coorey says it’s one of the Senator’s “standard jokes” when he rings people.
Tony Abbott’s pitch to the country independents is looking a bit flimsy this morning. He’s got one unnamed Lib MP making “devil” calls to Rob Oakeshott’s family, the Nats are jumping up and down saying “what about us?” and over the weekend it emerged Alby Shultz took it upon himself to ring Tony Windsor and give him a piece of his mind.
The Coalition is carrying on like a bunch of school girls (apologies to schools girls everywhere) who don’t actually want to form Government.
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This month the NSW Nationals decided to trial a new system that would allow the general public and not just party members to select its parliamentary candidates.
The system, termed community pre-selections, will be trialled on 31 July next year in the northern NSW seat of Tamworth, now held by independent Peter Draper.
The Nats say it is about getting rid of the disconnect between the people who decide the candidate – often a handful of men – and the people who decide who becomes the Member of Parliament.
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Jamers Hunter says:
Rt how can you say there is no benefit in the proposal? It has not been tried. Anytrhing that eliminates the selection of party hacks has to be benificial look at the mess party hacks,from all parties, have got us into. Mind you some people of arrested intellectual developoment cant… Read more »
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AJ says:
Bloody hell Darren… what has Windsor done for his electorate? What got him in federally was the stuff up with Stuart St Clair. Read a bit of history mate. Oakshott is even worse…. getting elected as a Nat and then turning independent. What does that say about a person. The… Read more »
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