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NT senator McMahon joins Lib Democrats

By AAP Newswire

Apr 8, 2022

Former Coalition senator Sam McMahon will contest next month's federal election for the Liberal Democrat party in the Northern Territory.

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Ms McMahon resigned from the Country Liberal Party in January after losing a fierce pre-selection battle to Jacinta Price last year.

"I've had a fair beating from politics. I was happy to step away. I did not want to continue on in politics," she told reporters in Darwin on Friday.

"But I have exercised my female prerogative to change my mind ... I am here to announce that I will be contesting the next election in the Senate for the Liberal Democrat party."

Ms McMahon said the CLP was in shambles and that she had joined the Liberal Democrats because of its professionalism.

She said the CLP had re-appointed one of her former staff members to its central council and failed to act on her concerns about the man.

Ms McMahon also said she hadn't accomplished everything she'd set out to do for the territory in politics, citing euthanasia and improving the use of federal infrastructure spending in the territory as issues she would focus on if re-elected.

She was joined at the press conference by ex-CLP candidate Kylie Bonnani who announced she would run in the lower house seat of Solomon for the Liberal Democrats.

By AAP Newswire

Australian Associated Press