Wonder how Cory will go in Blackouts Sth Aust where Labor is so on the nose it stinks ?
Cory Bernardi’s small target strategy worksAMM 26/06/2017
With a rabid left media hungering for conservative blood, as Cory Bernardi has well discovered, it pays to keep your head down, circumvent the sharks in the pool and work hard at your plan.Cory Bernardi is poised to announce a Victorian MP is joining his Australian Conservatives party just days after applying to register the party in Victoria ahead of next year’s state election.
Bernardi must know that defections by smart politicians to his party can only increase as both major parties continue on their Pied Piper jaunt over the precipice of political death where they certainly belong.
Cory Bernardi strikes again, luring another MP to his Australian ConservativesSource: Fairfax
Fairfax Media understands the South Australian senator will on Monday reveal the Victorian upper house MP Dr Rachel Carling-Jenkins will defect to the Australian Conservatives. And further defections in Victoria and possibly NSW are anticipated, according to party insiders.
Fairfax Media can reveal Senator Bernardi’s party has broken the 10,000 mark for memberships nationally. By contrast, the Victorian division of the Liberal Party is understood to have about 13,000 members and the NSW division about 10,500.
Support has fallen since the 2015 leadership change from Tony Abbott to Malcolm Turnbull, but senior sources have scotched internal party claims made by disaffected members that the number in NSW has slipped below 10,000.
Dr Carling-Jenkins represents the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and her defection will spell the end of the troubled party’s representation across the country. It also follows the federal Coalition’s successful passage last week of a schools funding formula, which short-changes Catholic schools by up to $3 billion.
The DLP’s last federal representative John Madigan also defected to set up his own John Madigan’s Manufacturing and Farming Party. It flopped when he was booted out of the Senate in the double dissolution election last year and he has since joined the Australian Country Party.
Senator Bernardi and Dr Carling-Jenkins were put in contact by a mutual friend about two months ago. Dr Carling-Jenkins wanted to join the Australian Conservatives because she believed conservatives needed to unite nationally to effectively prosecute their causes. She spent two decades working in the welfare sector and held a PhD in social sciences.
In her first speech to the Victorian Parliament in 2015, she described herself as a social justice campaigner, committed to raising awareness about gender selection abortions, cracking down on the sex-industry, and rights and care for the disabled and elderly. She will become the Australian Conservatives first female MP.
Ms Carling-Jenkins’ defection is the second major coup for Senator Bernardi, who dismayed colleagues with his own defection in February when he said he was creating his own conservative movement, in part to keep his former Liberal Party accountable to its founding principles, including lower taxes and lower government spending.
His critics, including the Victorian Liberal Party state president Michael Kroger and former premier Jeff Kennett, derided his breakaway movement and predicted it would flop but it has already exceeded 10,000 members and will now have acquired three sitting MPs.
In April, Senator Bernardi announced his party was absorbing Family First and gained the South Australian upper house members Robert Brokenshire and Dennis Hood. Senator Bernardi has gone on to register the party in Victoria and NSW. He recently held a lunch with several high-profile NSW Liberals whose attempts to democratise the party’s internal processes were being continually frustrated.
The gathering, involving close allies of former prime minister Tony Abbott, is considered a threat to the NSW division of the Liberal party amid fears members will defect if the moderates’ grip on the state party continues.
Sources said more defections of sitting MPs were likely, but they would not reveal the identities of any considering leaving.
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