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Via The Australian:
Crossbench senator Nick Xenophon has announced that he is resigning from the federal Senate to run in the South Australian seat of Hartley in the 2018 state election.
Senator Xenophon said he had been planning the move for some time, denying that it was related to the High Court citizenship case.
He says he expects to be replaced by a Nick Xenophon Team candidate, regardless of next week’s High Court verdict.
Senator Xenophon says his party “only need to come second” to become the opposition in South Australia.
There’s only one interpretation that counts here. His legal advice is decisive.
Hellooooo High Court smash for the Government.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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