MP reveals the frustrations that drove her to the crossbench, and the desperate reactions after she dropped the bombshell
Julia Banks has a lucky suit. She wore it for her preselection, on the night she won the marginal seat of Chisholm in 2015, when she delivered her first speech to parliament, and when she rose in parliament on Tuesday to announce she was parting ways with the Liberal party.
The bombshell the Victorian MP delivered this week was at least six weeks in the making, and she confided in no one apart from her family, close friends and the women on the crossbench she’d resolved to join. She also told David Elder, the clerk of the House, to facilitate the statement, which was delivered at the same time Scott Morrison was attempting to reset the government by telegraphing the likely date of the 2019 election, and promising a surplus budget.
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