While Zed gets about the business of knifing the generally well regarded Senator Humphries, and Brendan Smyth and Jeremy Hanson set to on the leadership front, there is an even grislier prospect for the party.
Zed’s replacement in Brindabella is either going to be the ancient hero of Tharwa, Val Jeffery, who surely does not have 8 years of politics left in him, or Nicole Lawder, who seems like a fantastic person, but will not make an appealing poster child for an election.
Zed’s not leaving the Assembly for some months (all the better to keep the party under his thumb), so we’ll have to wait a while to find out.