It’s election year, time for the great policy purge

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By tracking the panicky moves from stressed politicians protecting their patch, we can reverse engineer what the parties internal polling is telling them writes Jon Faine. auspol liberal labor

, who this week confirmed he will not contest the next election, thus triggering an internal tussle over which faction gets his plum seat.

Veteran senator Kim Carr, seemingly in parliament since dinosaurs roamed the earth, is under pressure to stand aside for younger people but sees no reason to oblige.In the eastern suburbs, the Liberal Party have just chosen Nicole Werner, a business development manager at Empower as their candidate for the crucial state lower house seat of Box Hill.

For almost 30 years it was regarded as a safe Liberal hold until four years ago, when the voters rejected veteran Robert Clark, attorney-general in the Baillieu/Napthine years. The Greens polled 15 per cent, but only 2 per cent of that flowed to Liberals. Green preferences saw the ALP elected. The Liberals post-election review argued that the coup against Malcolm Turnbull three months before the 2018 Victorian election cruelled their chances in seats like Box Hill. We will see if that was actually the decisive issue come November.it is hardly surprising that we are seeing a serious challenge to the two-party system, mostly from climate change and integrity campaigners.Typically,

 

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