Andrew Lethlean almost took the federal seat of Bendigo from Labor at the last federal election. Now he has his sights set on beating the Victorian premier.
Three Labor ministers,including one of the premier’s key lieutenants,have announced their retirement from politics ahead of the November election,paving the way for a reshuffle of Jacinta Allan’s cabinet.
Labor MPs have been told to be ready for a meeting early next week,amid expectations there will be a vote on cabinet vacancies following several planned retirements.
The Liberal Party is directly confronting the threat posed by One Nation in the Nepean byelection,in a preview of their strategy to combat the minor party’s rising popularity.
Voters in Liberal-held seats will punish Jess Wilson if they perceive she is trying to walk both sides of the street when it comes to One Nation.
State party president Phil Davis warns in an exclusive interview that if the Liberals can’t make peace among themselves and with their direction,they can’t win.
Voters on the Mornington Peninsula are preparing for their first of two visits to the polls in seven months,in what looms as a complicated three-way race.
Andrew Lethlean confirmed he would seek preselection to run for the Nationals in November,having nearly pinched the overlapping federal seat last year.
At noon on Thursday,there were four candidates seeking Liberal Party preselection for an upper house seat representing Melbourne’s west. By the end of the day,there was only one.
The preselection battle between Moira Deeming and Dinesh Gourisetty was for months dogged by accusations of branch stacking and suspicions of an anti-Deeming conspiracy at work.