Senator Humphries announced a press conference this morning at 11.45 to discuss last night’s party meeting and the Senate pre-selection.
We attended with a smattering of reptiles and, as the wind was blowing a hooligan, proceedings were moved inside.
I’ve recorded the whole shebang for posterity.
A particular highlight is at the end when he’s asked how the [...]

Not to be outdone by Labor’s ridiculous spill/no spill circus, the local Liberals have stepped forwards remind us that they are just as much a parody of a real political party by bringing in lawyers to settle this whole Zed Seselja versus Gary Humphries malarky.
For those who have blissfully avoided or managed to forget the [...]

The Canberra Times has a confused account of where the pre-selection War in Heaven (apparently conducted in the afterlife) for the Liberals Senate spot is up to.
Many Pogo* members excluded from voting by Zeddite manipulation (including Big Bob Winnel) have now got themselves some voting rights and it appears there will be another pre-selection vote.
Meanwhile [...]

The ABC has the unsurprising news that Senator Gary Humphries will take an opportunity if it comes his way:
A top level Liberal Party meeting will consider a motion to have the result set aside because of concerns that many members were denied a vote.
Senator Humphries was asked on Monday whether he would renominate if the [...]

After Zed’s victorious campaign against the Pogos over the weekend he has now turned his mighty gaze onto the residents of Lanyon Valley and is wondering why Labor hasn’t given them a pool yet.
In the Assembly today, Mr Seselja will call on the ACT Labor Government to outline when they will develop more community facilities [...]

There are two problems with the Canberra Times’ ongoing efforts to pre-empt democractic processes in their attempts to get around the moribund business of printing news on dead trees:
1) They get it wrong, all the time.
2) Their narrative robs the participants of democratic franchise
They should be judged very harshly for this.
But they’ll keep getting the [...]

Zed Seselja’s media advisor Emily Davis has announced there will be a press conference at 2pm.
(Yes exactly who is making the call is possibly significant)
Keep your eyes posted.

UPDATE: Jeremy Hanson is the leader, Alistair Coe as deputy.

It does make one wonder what Senator Humphries was playing at when he convinced the Canberra Times Alistair Coe [...]

The Canberra Times is reporting that a deal has been done to install Alistair Coe as leader of the opposition in return for his Young Liberal army of darkness backing Zed’s Senate tilt.
Zed of course has a vote in the party room today.
In 8 months time when Zed leaves the Assembly the numbers will change.
It’s [...]

I will say it from the outset – I am no friend of the Liberal party, but I have to say I was amazed at what I witnessed at the Erindale shopping centre yesterday afternoon (8 October).
Ms CSRI and I were popping into the shops to pick up a couple of things when we came across [...]

As a fair and balanced, neutral political observer, with no allegiance to any political party, or political philosophy, I have been weighing up who will be getting my vote in the 2012 Assembly election.
I have gone into this with an open mind, taking into account the policy announcements and party platforms and have decided that [...]

The Canberra Liberals have sent forth the official announcement of their candidates for the October election, written with Leader Zed Seselja as the speaker:
“In Brindabella, Brendan Smyth and I will be very well supported by Tharwa community hero Val Jeffrey, small businessman Andrew Wall, and Community sector CEO Nicole Lawder.
“In Ginninderra, Alistair Coe and Vicki [...]

Had a chat with a friend with very close ties to the ACT Liberals, I guess what the media would refer to as a ‘senior Liberal source’, who told me that Mr Seselja is in some serious trouble and has lost the support of his fellow Liberal MLA’s.  However, apparently all is not lost as there [...]

Zed Seselja’s ACT Liberals in confected horror over the use of common vocabulary in twitter

The ABC brings word that Liberal Leader Zed Seselja has, in his slow way, had a look at the manner in which his party had made off with $10,000 of charity funds and has decided to give the money back.
Liberal Leader Zed Seselja insists his party has acted in good faith.
But he says having looked [...]

Imagine our thrill to discover that in the last 30 minutes the Canberra Liberals have managed to post online their Christmas message.
We eagerly await their new year’s missive.
Who knows what weeks late announcements they’ll make as they set themselves up for an election year in 2012?

The Canberra Liberals publish their year in review.

We hear the Canberra Liberals held their AGM last night.
Any of you lot got anything to report?
(You know you want to)

The ABC reports that the senseless aping of their federal counterparts by the Canberra Liberals continues.
This time having seen Tony Abbott get all hairy chested on the subject of “pairs” in the hung House of Representatives Zed is refusing to stand down one of his number as Mr Stanhope’s long holiday intrudes into a sitting [...]

 James Massola, fresh from the Canberra Times, lifts the rock on the internal workings of the Canberra Liberals in a semi-literate piece for The Australian.
Interesting that this sort of thing makes it into the National Media at election time, when so many people have known about Zed’s effort to emaciate the party and concentrate all [...]

Canberra Liberal powerbrokers are working the phones this weekend ahead of the critical Central (ie Molonglo) branch AGM this Tuesday night at Menzies House.
The main contest will be for the Chairmanship of the branch between incumbent Jimmy Kiploks and challenger Christian Dunk.
Kiploks is being backed by Party Leader Zed Seselja and is critical to Zed’s [...]

As far as I can tell this is the last media release out of the Canberra Liberals. It’s dated 14 November.
So in the last two weeks they’ve come across no issues worthy of wider exposure? The Government has been so flawless as to be beyond any reproach? No constituents have brought any issues to them [...]

Just got the AGM Nominees for the Liberal Party.
Interesting times again at the Liberal Party.
They just lost an election for being too right wing and now look at the list of nominees they have for the AGM.
Zed obviously can’t control his troops, they are looking to have another 4 years of the same old sh..tfight
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