Tag: Alex Antic
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Antic declares left wing ‘pandemic’ as SA Liberals’ shift to right confirmed
Antic narrowly defeated former cabinet minister Anne Ruston in a weekend preselection ballot to take number one spot on the party’s Senate ticket for the next federal election. Ruston was relegated to number two, despite having the behind-the-scenes backing of federal Leader Peter Dutton, although both Antic and Ruston are likely to be elected given…
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SA Liberal right’s clean sweep marks ‘renaissance in conservative values’
Antic told InDaily that he was not interested in being interviewed about the future direction of the party after his factional success at the weekend’s annual general meeting elections, apparently objecting to previous reports of the concerns of Liberal moderates. “The relentless charade involving left-wing members of the Liberal Party feeding InDaily stories which suit…
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Conservative kingmakers gather factional forces for Liberal AGM
Ahead of the AGM on August 26, one Liberal insider told InDaily that concerns are held amongst some members that conservative power brokers backing aligned candidates for top SA Liberal Party jobs are in danger of making the party “unelectable”. Playford Mayor Glenn Docherty who earns a $91,312 mayoral allowance covering Adelaide’s northern suburbs also…
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Libs promote ‘right’ newcomer to front bench
Ben Hood MLC was named Assistant Shadow Minister for Regional South Australia just four months after beating moderate Leah Grantham in the battle for a spot vacated by retired former Liberal Health Minister Stephen Wade in the state’s upper house. MacKillop MP McBride resigned from the party a few weeks ago to become an independent…
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‘Dark forces’: Liberal factional tensions erupt as MP turns independent
McBride, who has represented the South East seat of MacKillop since 2018, announced overnight he would be quitting the Liberal Party to sit as an independent. He said today that party membership is “controlled by factionalism” and questioned whether Opposition leader David Speirs is in control amid a concerted recruitment drive from the hard right…
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‘Enjoy being the opposition’: Another moderate Liberal blasts shift to right
Moderate-aligned Hannah March, who previously worked as a staffer for former factional leader and federal minister Christopher Pyne and served as a president of the SA Liberal Women’s Council, spoke out after another Women’s Council member lashed the party earlier this month. Anna Finizio, considered a frontrunner to contest former Premier Steven Marshall’s seat of…
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Au revoir, Monsieur le Président | Labor’s ‘land tax’ moment | Lib Right takes another branch
Non, je ne regrette rien It’s been a tough few weeks to be an SA Liberal Party administrator. First the Marshall government was turfed from office after just one term, and then the federal government followed suit, with the local Libs losing the seat of Boothby for the first time since the Menzies era. Still,…
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‘Make the party great again’: Libs’ Right faction in Colton coup
Cowdrey’s seat of Colton – which he retained against the March state election tide with a margin of 4.8 per cent – held its branch AGM last week, with an influx of new conservative-aligned members attending ahead of a vote to install a new SEC (state electorate convention) president. The meeting was attended by prominent…
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Speirs calls for end to Libs’ ‘Divine Right’ recruitment drive
The newly-elected Opposition Leader has also declared himself “open” to formalised factions in the fractured Liberal Party, which he conceded would need structural reform as well as policy overhaul – the latter under a new shadow ministry which he today unveiled. Speaking on InDaily’s Notes On Adelaide podcast (listen below) Speirs reflected on an incendiary…
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Antic vs The Advertiser | No expulsion for SA Lib ‘double agents’
Antic vs The Advertiser Firebrand SA Liberal senator Alex Antic has a knack of making headlines – even if he doesn’t always appreciate it. Regular readers may recall his regular disdainful refrain about this very publication, which he last year branded “fake news”. But it turns out this was practically a generous tribute compared to…