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Jacq Jacq Jacqui: Who will Senator Lambie parachute into politics next?

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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...
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The Jacqui Lambie Skills triumphs with fully no insurance policies
28 Mar
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The Jacqui Lambie Skills triumphs with fully no insurance policies

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Politics tamfitronics So after the full tumult and the shouting, the Hare-Clark-Robson system roaring away, the votes flying in all directions, Tasmania is to catch one other Liberal authorities, this time buttressed by the Jacqui Lambie Skills, a group that went to the election proudly stating it had no insurance policies.Labor folded its tent today. Now frail chief Rebecca White, after a placeholding speech on Saturday night that left open the chance of looking for a coalition, announced on Sunday morning the party had knocked that on the head. She then vanished into obscurity after a decade within the thankless, joyless role of opposition chief, having foregone the chance to commit fully to a coalition and dare the caucus to pole-axe her later (they'd accept as true with pole-axed her, so rapidly as to catch...
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