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The Liberal Party is optimistic of holding the Queensland seat of Fadden in the forthcoming federal byelection, in the belief key factors that causedAt the same time, the party’s hierarchy is still in the dark over when Scott Morrison plans to retire from parliament, an act that will cause another byelection, this time in the Sutherland Shire seat of Cook, in NSW.
Unlike the marginal Aston, Fadden is a safe seat, held easily by Mr Robert at the election a year ago with a two-party preferred vote of 64 per cent to 36 per cent for his Labor rival. When the Liberal Party lost Aston on April 1 in an election caused by the resignation of former minister Alan Tudge, it was the first time in 103 years that a government had won a seat from an opposition in a federal byelection.
Central to the result was that the Liberal candidate, Roshena Campbell, was not local to the outer-suburban seat, enabling Labor’s ground campaign to target her as the barrister from Brunswick.
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