The recent by-election loss in Adelaide's south comes just eight months after another party blow — the loss of former premier Steven Marshall's seat of Dunstan.
In the lead-up to the Black by-election, South Australian Liberal elder Trish Worth didn't feel her party would win."I guess not too many Liberals were expecting that we would win because things had been so messy beforehand."Labor has described the Black by-election boilover as a "vote of confidence" — but the result is equally, if not more, telling for the South Australian Liberal Party, which has been whittled down to just 13 lower house MPs.
Ms Worth is a moderate, and said over time the make up of the council had changed, with a push from the party's hard right, led by Senator Alex Antic, to recruit like-minded members. "There was no need to be having the senate pre-selection one week out from the Dunstan by-election," she said. "It is a very harsh warning to the state Liberal Party that they have to present a compelling reason to the South Australian public for why they should vote for them," he said.
"If they keep playing out these factional wars, the number of MPs they get elected will continue to decline so the factions themselves will become irrelevant because they won't have seats in parliament," he said.
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