Tag Archive for 'Mal Brough'

Brendan Nelson’s intervention

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by
Kim
4 months ago
in Queensland
. 11 Comments

Nelson gives hope and comfort to Mal Brough:

Dr Nelson - who supported a merger, but wanted voters to see a Liberal as president if the Nationals’ Lawrence Springborg was to be leader - yesterday defended Mr Brough. “I do believe Mal Brough has a future in politics if that is what he chooses to pursue,” Dr Nelson said.

Nice to see Brendan, in a spirit of solidarity, indicating that bumbling incompetence is no barrier to high office in the Liberal Party. But Mal’s problem is that he’s president of a party that doesn’t exist, but might still want a career in politics, but refuses to join the LNP. Continue reading ‘Brendan Nelson’s intervention’

Pineapple Party latest

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Mark
4 months, 1 week ago
in Queensland
. 6 Comments

Bernard Keane has a pretty good take on the latest machinations on the Pineapple Party, where The Borg has resolutely refused to allow any compromise on the presidency issue, leading some Liberals feeling (correctly) that the whole thing is just a Nationals takeover. He’s also right to highlight the influence of the Santo Santoro faction, who have now transferred their machinations to the Liberal National Party, since they were unable to achieve their aims in the Liberals. That’s very bad news potentially for the merged entity, because that mob are masters of the art of sacrificing electability for self-serving power grabs.

Where Keane’s article isn’t quite so astute is the claim that:

At this point, they may be relying on Nationals intransigence to wreck the deal.

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