I didn’t know he’d refused to walk. What a dill. Cut your losses! Although maybe he just doesn’t know how to do anything else.

I think it’s the latter. It’s one thing I’ll give Burke credit for: he has many failings, but I think he resigned because despite them all he cares enough about the ALP not to prolong the bad press unnecessarily. I think that maybe with Grill it was that same care for his party, but it manifested in a desire to keep fighting until they got him on an unrelated matter (donating $$ to the Nats on behalf of a client).

I wonder if the “family reasons” also took into account the fact that he and Jim McGinty are in Laws (their respective offspring are in a relationship and have produced a grandchild) and to avoid a possible Family feud if he did indeed ran as an independent ?

I didn’t know he’d refused to walk. What a dill. Cut your losses! Although maybe he just doesn’t know how to do anything else.

Funny(ish) story – I went to high school with his son (after expulsion from some private school or other), who became firm friends with the also-expelled and repeating son of Ross Lightfoot. Everyone called them The Odd Couple or somesuch (Romeo and Juliet was my contribution), but my politics teacher said they were made for each other. He wouldn’t explain, and I didn’t understand why for some years.