By: centrelink10
4/07/2009
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ABC Online - ‎12 minutes ago‎
South Australian Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith has survived a leadership spill by the narrowest margin. The vote was 11 to 10 against his challenger, Vickie Chapman
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Very close it seems |
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By: the_green_millennium
4/07/2009
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Yeah, as they predicted
Liberals would rather die out with a con man at their head than have a women leader. |
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By: the_green_millennium
4/07/2009
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also on ABC's stateline last night, they said there will be another leadership challenge before next years election if MHS won today.
Looks like the Greens are the only option besides Labor in South Australia. |
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By: slr2007mclaren
4/07/2009
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By: kaboodleschnitzer
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| The SA Libs are on the verge of extinction... their only chance of even surviving was under Vicki Chapman. GM - you are right - the greens are the only alternative to Emperor Rann. |
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By: slr2007mclaren
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| Still undecided until Wednesday |
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By: peterjpearson01
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197 ,25686627-5013945,00.html
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SOUTH Australian Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith misled a group of his most senior MPs into believing there was a highly placed ALP source behind fake documents he used to try to discredit the Rann government. |
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By: centrelink10
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SOUTH Australian Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith misled a group of his most senior MPs into believing there was a highly placed ALP source behind fake documents he used to try to discredit the Rann government.
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Hey, Liberals, the fake party - emails, phamplets, fake documents. Please sign the kids up now! This is the honest party of the future |
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By: larkhill50
4/07/2009
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Martin Hamilton-Smith's future as leader of the South Australian opposition remains clouded.
After winning Saturday's Liberal Party leadership poll by just one vote, he says the signal such a narrow win sends to the public is not decisive enough.
So he has called for a second vote he hopes will provide a clearer outcome.
Any chance of an early end to internal party tensions and public speculation was lost when Mr Hamilton-Smith beat former deputy leader Vickie Chapman by 11 votes to 10.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5702218 |
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By: buzzanddidj
8/07/2009
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SA Liberals set to elect new leader
July 8, 2009 - 9:14AM
A new leader of South Australia's Liberal Party will be elected on Wednesday after bitter infighting within the party.
Three candidates are vying for the job vacated by Martin Hamilton-Smith this week - his former deputy Vickie Chapman, current deputy leader Isobel Redmond and former frontbencher Mitch Williams.
A ballot of Liberal MPs will be held from 10am (CST) to decide the new leader, ahead of a state election in March next year.
Mr Hamilton-Smith called a leadership spill last week and won a subsequent vote on Saturday, 11 to 10 with one MP abstaining.
But he quit the post on Monday and called another ballot, hoping for a more decisive outcome for the party which lags behind the Rann Labor government in polls.
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SA Libs elect Isobel Redmond as leader
July 8, 2009 - 11:29AM
Isobel Redmond has been elected leader of the South Australian Liberal Party.
Ms Redmond won a leadership ballot on Wednesday following the resignation of former leader Martin Hamilton-Smith on Monday.
Three candidates had been vying for the job vacated by Martin Hamilton-Smith this week - his former deputy Vickie Chapman, current deputy leader Isobel Redmond and former frontbencher Mitch Williams.
Mr Hamilton-Smith called a leadership spill last week and won a subsequent vote on Saturday, 11 to 10 with one MP abstaining.
But he quit the post on Monday and called another ballot, hoping for a more decisive outcome for the party which lags behind the Rann Labor government in polls.
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/s a-libs-elect-isobel-redmond-as-leader-20090708-dcc y.html
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By: thy.nemesis
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Surely this cannot be correct!?
Have the SA Libs elected someone who ostensibly is neither 'Lib Babe' nor 'Big Swinging Dick'!? |
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By: buzzanddidj
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Vote debacle turns party leadership mess to farce
Michael Owen | July 06, 2009
MARTIN Hamilton-Smith had a clear opportunity after the weekend's disastrous leadership ballot to finally begin putting the South Australian Liberal Party's interests ahead of his own.
It was yet another opportunity lost in this sorry debacle.
Immediately after he had won a hollow 11-10 victory, with one unknown MP abstaining, a shell-shocked Hamilton-Smith told the partyroom he would stand aside.
Senior Liberal sources say party rules are silent on such a scenario, but that if he had not been persuaded to call a second ballot for Wednesday, his deputy and sole challenger at the time, Vickie Chapman, would have been the new leader.
But this is the South Australian Liberal Party and petty personal hatreds run deep.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197 ,25737957-32542,00.html
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