The Senate was designed to protect the states. So the larger states wouldn’t be able to run roughshod over the smaller ones. Which is why when there was a vacancy the Premier used to name the replacement.
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The Convention was that casual Senate vacancies were filled by someone from the same Party. The process was that the relevant Party in the State nominated a replacement to the Premier, who took it through State Parliament approval.
Joh blew that up with the Field replacement for Bert Milner and rejecting the ALP proposed Colston. Field was technically ALP but made it known that he wouldn’t support the Whitlam Government ( he was expelled from the ALP)
After this fiasco, the successful 1977 Constitutional referendum served to ensure that casual vacancies are replaced by a nominee from the same Party.
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Premiers still do.
Issue is really that Senators who only get elected due to a Party ticket have no principles and leave their Party but do not resign their Senate seat, so no vacancy for a Premier to replace.
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And I’ll bet a pound to a gooseberry that Malarndirri is actually an Essendon barracker.
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Jacqi Lambie first got elected as a UAP Senator, through Clive’s largesse. Otherwise, she might never had made it to be re-elected in her own right.
In the Reps, Andrew Gee was elected in 2025 as an Independent, after resigning from the Nats during the last term and sitting as an Independent.
Rex Patrick filled the casual vacancy from Xenophon’s resignation , as a member of Centre Alliance, but later became an Independent. He hasn’t been re-elected ( this time standing as a member of the Jacqi Lambie network).
Nearly 12% in the Footscray booth.
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A few boasts on their site at polling in booths in Bendigo ( including Castlemaine, and Golden Square) ; Cooper; Wills; Fraser and Scullin.
I did see a large Vic Socialist banner up at a house in Ripponlea, but I think they only ran on a Senate ticket in MacNamara.
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To give Sussan her due, she was a Minister/Cabinet Minister in the Coalition Government , from Abbott through to Turnbull and Morrison, Deputy Lib under Dutton and in Shadow Cabinet .
So you are saying she is experienced in collaborating with grifters and slimebags? I think we knew that already.
At least she didn’t cover up for someone who (here I will employ the word allegedly) raped one of her staff, like one of her colleagues and supporters did.
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She’s also had quite an amazing life outside of politics - born in Nigeria, lived in UAE and UK, moved to Canberra where her dad worked for the AFP, single mum, became a pilot at 20, trained in air traffic control, farmer, shearer’s chef, masters degree in accounting and taxation law, Director of Technical Training at the ATO. That’s a very broad life experience across many different areas. She’s obviously smart and a very hard worker.
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Ley’s father was in British Intelligence in colonial Nigeria. The family left Nigeria when she was one year old, shortly after Nigerian Independence.
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Nigerian birth certificate!
/s
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I believe I read that her dad was a spy and ended up in the AFP in Canberra. It’s a very interesting background SL has. First woman to lead the Liberal Party and first ever female opposition leader in Australian politics. It’s certainly a contrast to the typical corporate lawyer, political staffer, think tank, union background we often get from our polies (referring to all sides).
I thought her story today about her dying mum was a great one and showed her human/compassionate side - something missing from her predecessor.
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Oh yes…she’s such a marvelous person…as long as you don’t mind a bit of cheating on her expense claims…or buying a Gold Coast unit “on a whim” whilst on that taxpayer funded trip.
Because who doesn’t buy an $800,000 unit on a whim?
Yes…such a marvelous person.
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Tim and everyone conceded for her, but she never did, right?
Approx 12k votes to sort through with the margin at 600…
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“Single mum” ?
Susan Penelope Braybrooks [sic] was born on 14 December 1961. Her Wikipedia biography says that she “met John Ley while aerial stock-mustering in south-west Queensland. They married in 1987, settled on her husband’s family farm in north-east Victoria, and had three children before their 2004 divorce. Ley has multiple grandchildren, residing on the NSW Central Coast.”
She used to live at Old Tallangatta, and was defeated in the Lieberal preselection for Indi by the notorious Sophie Panopoulos, so she moved across the River to Albury and picked up the nomination for the NSW seat of Farrer. That was in 2001: she still represents Farrer today. She had a varied working life before that, including gaining her commercial pilot’s licence, and working as a farmer, and a shearers’ cook. I wonder if she has renounced her Nigerian and British citizenships yet…
Yes Perce after her divorce in 2004 she became a single mum to 3 children. It was what she was referred to in an article I read yesterday.
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Irrelevant for Zoe (or anyone else) if they concede defeat or claim victory, the AEC keeps counting until done and then they declare the result and return the writs. Everything before then is unofficial, albeit that where the overall result is clear the GG will swear in new ministers - who can be not in parliament at all for up to 30 days I think, so the Schroedinger’s parliamentary status before return of writs doesn’t really matter.
Australia adds about half a million people net a year.
Or about 2 Geelongs or a Newcastle
We build between 100-200k dwellings.
Property prices keep increasing.
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