Jacq Jacq Jacqui: Who will Senator Lambie parachute into politics next?
Politics tamfitronics Jacqui Lambie of the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) is not the first Australian politician to name a party after themselvesrunning candidates off their own personal brand.But she may be the first to have been elected to another such party, Clive Palmer’s Palmer United Party (PUP), only to split and successfully form her own, building a reputation as a fierce advocate for veterans and Tasmanians.There is some irony in the fact that Lambie recently lost her first successful appointee, fellow Senator Tammy Tyrrell, who in March left the party to sit as an independent, echoing Lambie’s own 2014 decampment (Tyrrell sat as a JLN senator for under two years; Lambie was a PUP senator for less than five months). Fortunately for Lambie, she’d just overseen the election of three new JLN candidates to the...
