Senate powerbroker says he will resign from the federal upper house to run in the South Australian election next MarchNick Xenophon will resign from the federal Senate to run for the South Australian state parliament. Political sources in Canberra say the Xenophon group is polling very strongly in his home state, with a primary vote in the high 20s. Our state politics is broken, politically bankrupt. “If you are in the tent, you can’t be a watchdog.”The ABC’s election analyst, Antony Green, told Guardian Australia that Xenophon’s shift made the state election a three-party contest. “The South Australian election will be a three-party contest – it will be a duel between three people rather than two and the rules are not defined.

Source: The Guardian October 06, 2017 00:06 UTC