Murdoch's Sky employee Peta Credlin is making her move in the manner of those who once worked for the IPA all no doubt to align the Liberal Party to their Right. Tell us this is just democracy at work and rather we aren't witnessing it's failure and sacrifice to factions. Even Abbott said after his one member one vote Warringah Motion failed "The Liberal Party is still too much of an insiders' club, but it's much less of an insiders club than it was."Abbott. Less isn't good enought in a Democracy when we saw Craig Kelly calling for an executive decision to save him or else. (ODT)
Federal election
How Peta Credlin has become the Liberal Party's 'great right hope'
On January 7, Aaron Patrick reported in The Australian Financial Review: “Liberal Party officials are eager to recruit Ms Credlin, who they believe could wrestle the rural-based seat from the Nationals' grip. Sources who know the former top aide to Tony Abbott say she is likely to run if the Nationals choose a weak candidate.”
This line sets up the narrative that if Credlin nominates she is effectively declaring the Nat a dud. Broad was only 43 and rising in Canberra so there could not have been ambitious Nats angling for the seat.
Credlin is apparently waiting to see who the Nats preselect. If she nominates for Liberal preselection, who would run against this Amazonian? Likely no-one because, unlike in NSW, the Liberals in Victoria are democratic and all local members vote for candidates, which disempowers factional creeps. When her boss lost his job in 2015 it must have been a crushing blow, but Credlin picked herself up and immediately excelled in another cut-throat industry – the news media. She seems to relish it
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