The factors behind the Aston byelection loss will not be present in Fadden, the Liberal Party believes.
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.
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.
By contrast, Queensland is the federal Coalition’s stronghold state and the Liberal National Party division there “has its shit together”, noted one senior party source. “We’ll preselect somebody who understands that part of the Gold Coast, and we should be in that seat, frankly, preselecting somebody who can be a future cabinet minister or a leader of our party,” he said at the weekend.Mr Robert is a controversial character, frequently mired in scandal. Mr Dutton had already demoted him to the outer shadow ministry and had hinted he would be sacked when, as expected, he fares poorly from the findings of the robo-debt royal commission.
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