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What Happened to the House of Representatives?

Clive Palmer tried to stop defections by writing penalty clauses into Canada contract. If you get elected you'll have to pay me a squillion dollars but I don't think courts have ever enforced that. It's just something to scare the people that you recruit to man polling booths and to beat candidates in your party. There was none of this when Andrew G did it like a month before Lydia Thorpe did. He's looked out for a second. Craig Loundry. Craig Kelly. Well on Lambie and party support that reminds me also that the party that suffered the most is United Party after he lost all of his senators except for D.O. Wong.

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