'Rising star' Seselja tipped for Coalition front bench

Peter Smith said :

Christina Hobbs? Some gracious concession words is what you do at this point.

Why? She’s not the incumbant, nor is she a front-runner.
And based on the disgusting misogynistic attitude of Seselja’s team, she shouldn’t even acknowledge his existence.

Mordd / Chris Richards said :

Robert Gunning was in Fenner for the Liberals. I still don’t know if he was Senate or Federal ?

How come we don’t hear about him or others before the election ? (Last election we had a female candidate) Are they all first timers just having a crack ?

All I hear about or know about Canberra Liberals is ZED and he isn’t my electorate . It’s like he is the only Federal Liberal candidate in the ACT ?

Zed is a Senator so if you live in the ACT, anywhere in the ACT he is in your ‘electorate’.

Only reason you heard just from him was elsewhere the Libs had zero chance of getting up. So why waste money pushing candidates who won’t win.

Sad thing is us these candidates think they stand a chance so spend their own money and time promoting themselves in the vain hope of getting in. An uncle of mine was a candidate for a safe labor seat in Sydney a few elections back and is very bitter and twisted about how the party machine treated him. He now votes labor. Though should admit he came from a very working class family that were labor people and only defected to the Libs over a state issue he felt strongly for. Told him at the time he was crazy, if a state issue is your platform go for state politics not federal.

So guess what I am saying is the machine used him and his money to fill a void with a liberal candidate on s ballot paper.

No doubt same happens in labor party too.

Christina Hobbs? Some gracious concession words is what you do at this point.

Robert Gunning was in Fenner for the Liberals. I still don’t know if he was Senate or Federal ?

How come we don’t hear about him or others before the election ? (Last election we had a female candidate) Are they all first timers just having a crack ?

All I hear about or know about Canberra Liberals is ZED and he isn’t my electorate . It’s like he is the only Federal Liberal candidate in the ACT ?

ABC reported this afternoon that Zed Seselja had made quota, and thus re-elected to the Senate for a second term.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-14/election-2016-senator-zed-seselja-reaches-quota-for-re-election/7629066

I think it’s hilarious that the Liberal Party, conned by Rupert Murdoch into becoming a sort of tea-party-friendly group pandering to the extremist fruitloops who deny climate science (and think vandalising the NBN was a good idea) and thus frittering away its support from middle Australia, is going to listen to Rupert Murdoch – AGAIN – and veer back towards the Tea Party as a reaction to the damage it did to itself by veering towards the tea party in the first place.

Maybe Rupert Murdoch is actually a secret socialist and this is all part of his plan to completely destroy the Australian Liberals just as he has used Fox to destroy the US Republican Party?

rising star? lol the guy is a goose.

The last thing the ACT Liberals need if they want to win local government and have a real go at the seats of Canberra and Fraser is more Seselja control of the party through more staffers. It will take the party further to the right and make it even less relevant to the majority of residents.

needs another sic:

“Mr Turnbull will be under extreme pressure to at least fill the vacancies with conservatives. Rising starts [sic] like ACT Liberal Senator Zed Seselja [sic] and Victorian MP Michael Sukkar are the names most mentioned among conservatives.”

sorted

The ACT Liberal senator who was instrumental in scotching what was going to be lots of jobs and growth through the construction of a gas-fired power station and data centre next to the Mugga tip is going to be on the front bench of a “jobs and growth” government?

Wouldn’t happen if grown-ups were in charge.