Fringe-right favourite Amanda Stoker returns to politics as LNP moderates worry about her Christian faction ties
by Ben Smee from World news | The Guardian on (#6FDP0)
Former federal senator says her conservative views will take a back seat to kitchen table concerns during Queensland state parliament election
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A few days after Amanda Stoker announced her run for Queensland state parliament in June, the former federal senator was due to appear at a panel discussion organised by the libertarian lobby group, the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance (ATA).
Stoker has built her reputation pitching herself to groups like the ATA, which exists in a political space that brings together folks from the Liberal National Party's conservative fringe and the coterie of small freedom parties that have splintered to the right.
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