BREAKING: Clive Palmer’s well-funded election campaign has delivered a last-gasp parliamentary position with Ralph Babet claiming the final spot in the Senate for Victoria. auspol
Clive Palmer’s well-funded election campaign has delivered a last-gasp parliamentary position with Ralph Babet claiming the final spot in the Senate for Victoria.
Babet, a real estate agent, was the United Australia Party’s number one Senate candidate in the state.The Australian Electoral Commission confirmed Victoria’s final Senate count on Monday morning. The top five spots were won by women: Liberal Sarah Henderson, Labor’s Linda White and Jana Stewart, the Nationals’ Bridget McKenzie and the Greens’ Lidia Thorpe.Babet was locked in a tussle with the Liberal Party’s Greg Mirabella for the state’s sixth and final spot.
It is the sole electoral victory for the UAP despite an estimated $100 million spend by the mining magnate during the federal election.The successful senators in that state were former foreign affairs minister Marise Payne, Labor’s Deborah O’Neill, Nationals’ Ross Cadell, Labor’s Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy Jenny McAllister, The Greens’ David Shoebridge and Liberal Jim Molan.
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