Labor factions strike deal to keep Mark Butler in parliament
by Paul Karp from World news | The Guardian on (#3V362)
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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