Jane Hume’s pitch to displace James Paterson in Victoria will provoke fresh discussion about female representation in the Liberal Party.
A peace deal engineered by then prime minister and treasurer Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg before the 2019 election shielded Hume, one of the opposition’s top female MPs, from a challenge by conservative forces, cementing her No.2 position.
Separate sources, also speaking confidentially about internal party matters, revealed state party presidentintended to run for the third spot on the Senate ticket, which will be decided at a preselection convention in November before a federal election due between 2024 and mid-2025. The Liberal source said the fight would prove rancorous and may stir disunity within the Coalition’s Senate leadership.Two of Paterson’s backers said he easily had the numbers within the division, had been picked ahead of Hume by the Victorian division on two previous occasions, and was on track to be a leading Coalition figure in Canberra whose shadow cabinet position was arguably as senior as Hume’s.
Paterson, a leading conservative voice on national security and noted China hawk, was not a minister in the last government but is considered a rising star, and both would probably be cabinet ministers in the next Coalition government.
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