A bevy of household names are Queensland candidates vying for a seat in the Senate, but they're unlikely to all secure enough votes to head to Canberra.
Inside a Logan auditorium that usually hosts church services, Campbell Newman is trying to stage a political resurrection.While six Senate seats are up for election in Queensland, only three are considered to be in playIt's a Saturday afternoon in late April and the former Brisbane lord mayor and one-time premier who is seeking to be senator enters the Liberal Democrats official Queensland federal election campaign launch to applause and calls of "Hello, Newman".
"Most politicians' egos would never permit them to go back to being just 'the candidate' after a career as stellar as Campbell Newman's – but he has." "The difficulty under the new Senate system when that happens is that these parties may compete [against] each other and then preferences don't flow between them," he said.
Of the remaining three seats, he said Senator Hanson stood a good chance of regaining one for One Nation.
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