Corie's replaced will be...

[brian ross]

SA Legislative Council President Andrew McLachlan to replace Cory Bernardi in Senate

[Juliar]

Libs triumph again.

[brian ross]

Libs triumph again.

Tories benefit again from Section 15 of the Constitution which was enplaced after a referendum which plugged a hole created by them by the resignation of Vince Gair. Section 15 states:

Where a vacancy has at any time occurred in the place of a senator chosen by the people of a State and, at the time when he was so chosen, he was publicly recognised by a particular political party as being an endorsed candidate of that party and publicly represented himself to be such a candidate, a person chosen or appointed under this section in consequence of that vacancy, or in consequence of that vacancy and a subsequent vacancy or vacancies, shall, unless there is no member of that party available to be chosen or appointed, be a member of that party.

Section 15 also provides:

Where —

in accordance with the last preceding paragraph, a member of a particular political party is chosen or appointed to hold the place of a senator whose place had become vacant; and
before taking his seat he ceases to be a member of that party (otherwise than by reason of the party having ceased to exist),

he shall be deemed not to have been so chosen or appointed and the vacancy shall be again notified in accordance with section twenty-one of this Constitution.

Corie Bernardi left the Liberal Party with some rancour. He late rejoined it. As it was his last recognised party, therefore they get to choose the new Senator.

[Black Orchid]

That's the way the cookie crumbles and I've never heard of Andrew McLachlan.

[brian ross]

That's the way the cookie crumbles and I've never heard of Andrew McLachlan.

Of course not. He's a minor politico of a Tory persuasion from Adelaide. Why would you? He's just replacing another spent squib from the Tory party...

[Juliar]

The Greeny is upset by the way the Libs have triumphed.

But greater more informed mortals would know that correct procedure has simply been followed.