The decision of the good pre-selectors of the National Party to resist the attempt by its remaining elder statesman, John Anderson, to resurrect his political career as a senator from New South Wales, looks like an own goal.
The weekend ballot was a rare opportunity to re-inject into its parliamentary ranks a candidate of class, tradition, moral spine and, as the British would say, “bottom”.
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