Anthony Albanese has announced local community leader Jodie Belyea will be Labor’s candidate for the seat of Dunkley after the passing of Peta Murphy.
Labor’s candidate for the Dunkley will be announced in days,with local community leader Jodie Belyea emerging as the frontrunner for a byelection crucial to both the government and the Coalition.
As one insider observed,“If we can’t get close in seats like Dunkley,where the hell are we meant to win?”
The nation’s focus will turn to Dunkley for a contest that will test the political temperature in a potential federal election year.
Internal NSW Liberal Party documents warn that lacklustre fundraising and “dysfunction” within the party could hamper its chances at the next federal election.
The Liberal Party won as expected but it still faces the task of reshaping itself from inward-looking shell to trusted entity with an eye to the future.
State MPs had wildly different interpretations of the byelection result,as the LNP celebrated making its safe Gold Coast seat even safer.
The byelection was triggered by the resignation of scandal-ridden Stuart Robert,who had held the seat on a 10.6 per cent margin.
Because it was always clear that the LNP’s candidate Cameron Caldwell was going to win the seat,Labor engaged in a lot of expectation management in the days leading up to the poll.
In the second of what could be three byelections this year,Peter Dutton says the cost of living should be a bigger issue than Stuart Robert’s involvement in robo-debt.
The looming byelection in the Gold Coast seat vacated by Stuart Robert will set up the first test of popular support for the referendum among Queensland voters.