Victorian Labor considering push to retake Prahran after surprise resignation of former Greens MP

Sam Hibbins announced resignation from parliament three weeks after confessing to consensual relationship with staff member

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Victorian Labor may field a candidate in the upcoming byelection for the inner Melbourne seat of Prahran, after the resignation of former Greens MP Sam Hibbins following his admission of an affair with a staffer.

Hibbins on Saturday announced he would resign as the member for Prahran just three weeks after he quit the Greens due to a consensual relationship" with a staff member on his team, which was a breach of the party's rules.

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