All 20 candidates in this Saturday’s Bradfield preselection must be pondering one major question: exactly what do local Liberal Party preselectors in a safe seat look for in a candidate?
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Mackerras: Howard’s Bennelong defeat was thoroughly ignominious
Given that John Howard was, in 2007, the first prime minister to contest a marginal seat it could be argued that his defeat in this election was no particular humiliation for him — until I did some statistical tests on the Bennelong result, writes Malcolm Mackerras.
