The LNP state council, made up of party leaders, councillors, and federal and state MPs, voted on the ticket order, granting Senator McGrath the coveted first place and relegating Senator Stoker to the still-winnable third spot.
The result was seen as a snub to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who was believed to be privately backing Senator Stoker after weeks of turmoil over the treatment of women in Parliament.
Speaking at a Sydney Conservative Forum on Monday night, Senator Stoker said preselectors needed to be educated on âabout what you actually need to be a good parliamentarianâ.
âWe think we know that instinctively just from being out in our communities, but as I learned the hard way in a preselection pretty recently â no,â she told the forum, hosted by the Roseville branch of the Liberal Party.
Snubbed Stoker says rival won top spot by drinking more beers with preselectors
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Women in the Liberal Party ‘get what is left over’: Alan Jones03/05/2021|3min
Sky News host Alan Jones says it is clear the Liberal Party has now “tied themselves in knots” over equal opportunities for women after four prominent Liberal women were either over-looked or shafted by their own party.
Mr Jones said no woman should be “rejected for the highest position anywhere” on the basis of gender, but nor should they be “preferred because she is a woman”.
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Conservative Queensland Senator Amanda Stoker has lost her bid for the top spot on the LNP s upper house ticket for the next federal election.
Senator James McGrath prevailed at the Saturday meeting of the LNP state council, garnering 212 votes to Senator Stoker s 101.
The result means that Senator Stoker will have the third spot on the ballot, with Nationals member Matt Canavan at number two.
The relegation is unlikely to lead to Senator Stoker s exit from parliament, as the coalition has won at least three Senate seats in Queensland at every federal election since 1998.
Senator McGrath, 46, quit his junior frontbench role in the lead up to Malcolm Turnbull being toppled as prime minister and played a key part in bringing down Tony Abbott.
It’s ‘up to Queenslanders’ to re-elect three Coalition Senators after Stoker dropping02/05/2021|5min
Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes says Queenslanders are “spoilt for choice” with the top three Coalition candidates on the Senate ticket – Matt Canavan, James McGrath and Amanda Stoker – and they need to ensure all three are returned.
Queensland LNP confirmed Senator McGrath would be placed above Senator Stoker on the ticket, dropping the assistant attorney general to the third spot – a traditionally difficult position to win from.
Senator Hughes said all three candidates were very strong, spruiking her personal ties with each, but reiterated that it was “really up to Queenslanders” to re-elect them all.
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