A shell-shocked Victorian Labor Party is beginning to turn its mind to who will replace Senator Kimberley Kitching, just days after the upper house MP died suddenly of a suspected heart attack amid a bitter preselection battle.
The senate seat belongs to the right faction but is bitterly divided in Victoria between subgroups aligned with the Australian Workers’ Union, on one hand, and the Shop, Distributed and Allied Workers and Transport Workers union groupings on the other. “Hopefully not, if I get my way,” a second source said on the condition of anonymity. “They don’t deserve it.”
One neoliberal replaces another. Woefully small gene pool.
For what it is worth, would love to see Fiona McLeod in the Senate.
Ruthless way to get the job.....Labor have blood on their hands.
What about someone ordinary to represent ordinary people?