Article 3V362 Labor factions strike deal to keep Mark Butler in parliament

Labor factions strike deal to keep Mark Butler in parliament

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Paul Karp
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Steve Georganas also to move seats under deal that will give right faction another winnable Senate spot

The outgoing Labor president, Mark Butler, and MP Steve Georganas will move seats in a factional deal set to keep them in the lower house and grant the Labor right another winnable spot on the Senate ticket.

Butler, who is Labor's climate change spokesman and whose seat of Port Adelaide was abolished by the Australian Electoral Commission, will move to Georganas's seat of Hindmarsh, and Georganas will replace the retiring MP Kate Ellis in the seat of Adelaide.

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