After the weekend defections to One Nation, and with more possibly to come, the task for remaining party loyalists is to regroup and reorient
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Even for Victoria’s usually dysfunctional Liberal party division, the untimely death of member John Ternel was a schemozzle.
A member for more than a decade, Ternel twice sought preselection to run for the Libs in suburban Melbourne seats. Unsuccessful both times, he quit after this month’s Farrer byelection.