Kimberley Kitching believed she was being monitored by her own side of politics that didn’t trust her; a “cantankerous cabal” within Labor blamed for undermining the late senator; Coalition ramps up support for gas industry. Follow updates here.
Senator Kimberley Kitching thought she was being watched. Not by the Chinese government, of which she was a critic. Nor by Coalition MPs or right-wing media commentators, with whom she had formed professional friendships.
Labor Senator Tim Ayres delivers his first speech in the Senate at Parliament House in 2019. Left faction leader Kim Carr watches over his left shoulder.Kitching believed that the former manufacturing workers union leader was being used by the Labor leadership to ensure she didn’t stray from party policy or cause the party other trouble, she confided to a Liberal MP.The 52-year-old, whoseHer treatment has split politics and the media on ideological grounds.
Kitching’s career was entwined with her closest friend in politics, former Labor leader Bill Shorten. Her unhappy experience as a senator over the past two years reflected, in part, the loss of Shorten’s power after he resigned as leader following the 2019 election loss, Labor insiders say. Kitching’s marriage to Andrew Landeryou, an oft-vicious political blogger and Labor factional operative, was held against her too. The childless couple were political obsessives, and named their two cavoodles Ronnie and Nancy Jane after US president Ronald Reagan and his wife.
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