Barnaby Joyce’s allies are making a last ditch effort to convince maverick Liberal National party MP George Christensen to rethink his retirement decision in an attempt to bolster the National leader’s numbers in the party room. Allow Facebook content? Retirements and preselection challenges have resulted in Joyce losing at least three votes in the tight 21-strong party room. LNP state MP Colin Boyce won preselection in O’Dowd’s central Queensland seat of Flynn and is not considered an automatic vote replacement for Joyce. Allow Facebook content?

Source: The Guardian July 13, 2021 08:03 UTC