Zed Seselja and Andrew Constance among names in the mix for NSW Senate pre-selection

It would be great if the NSW Liberals (inc all the other parties for that matter) actually put forward candidates to the community who are from the community, not professional politicians & staffers who have never had a real job before. It’s time for Zed and Andrew to put on their big boy pants and join the real work force (exc lobbying firm).

Sadly all sides of politics continue to put forward candidates who are staffers or union hacks, never been either a white or blue collar worker.

We’ll get to see the ACT Liberals put up xstaffer types like Kacey Lam-Evans who has never worked for anybody but Christopher Pyne or more Zed / Gerry Wheeler types and more of the same ACT Labour union hacks Pettersson, Steel , Barr. Or ACT Greens candidates putting forward the likes Jon Davies and being a MLA will be their first job

More Pocock teal type candidates will emerge from the community whilst the ACT Liberal right faction continues to provide a poor alternative ACT Government. Lets hope Lee holds on until next year before Hansen returns with his hard right conservative agenda and flopping the anti tram like a dead horse because 3 elections on it weren’t enough

The federal Liberals are not exactly over-burdened with plausible candidates for senior ministerial positions – this opportunity should be taken to do something about that.

In the event that Zed prevails, there is always the possibility (however remote) that he might, from the vantage point of a NSW Senate seat, start asking some pointed questions about the longer term viability of the ACT’s self-government arrangements and develop some workable proposals for modifications to those arrangements.

For those who don’t think Zed has a chance, think again! Zed has some very powerful right-wing backers in the party and government. I am sure he is schmoozing them now; scheming, stacking and undermining. That is how Zed works.

I hope though that Zed wins, I really do. Then the Teals can put a candidate in there to make him really work for his seat and knock him out again at the next election.

There was nothing more satisfying than watching Zed at the last election. Snapped from his slumber by now Senator David Pocock and his over 2,200 enthusiastic supporters a month before the election. Nothing like a bit of competition to stimulate Canberra’s otherwise staid elections. Forced to do a bit of work for a change, working up a sweat out on the hustings. Something Zed has never had to do before in the once safe seat of Canberra. Pounding the pavement, making promises like there is no tomorrow and throwing money around like confetti. Then losing his party’s only senate seat.

If western Sydney voters thought politics was calm under Marise Paine, wait until Zed and his cheer squad of excitable Young Liberals hit town with their toxic mix of politics. Western Sydney won’t know what hit them!

It won’t take long for that old anti-Canberra bias to take hold!

Well, if they want Zed they really are desperate. His list of achievements is non-existent, aside from really annoying most ACT residents. But then, the ultra right Liberals seem to like this type of person. At least Andrew Constance stands up for his constituents, rather than voting against them.

Zed lost his seat in the last election because he wasn’t representing the ACT people. Noting how he’d previously moved around positions, how he was keen to be involved on Federal issues, and how he started resisting what the ACT wanted, he clearly had ambitions of his own.
Hopefully the NSW people will look at his history and record, and realise that he won’t be representing them either and respond accordingly. Fortunately, he has other contenders who have a good history of (local) representation.

What to do with an ousted ACT politician? Former ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope was sent off to be Administrator for Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Strong work ethic? Zed?