Anna Palmer could be ‘queenmaker’ in key seat
Clive Palmer’s wife Anna Palmer is swapping preferences in a key state election seat as part of a newly-revealed deal.
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Clive Palmer’s wife Anna Palmer is swapping preferences with the LNP’s Laura Gerber in a key state election seat as part of a newly-revealed deal.
Ms Palmer, deputy leader of the United Australia Party, is standing in the southern Gold Coast seat of Currumbin – almost 50km from the Sovereign Islands mansion she shares with billionaire Mr Palmer and their children.
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Now, how-to-vote cards handed out at Currumbin’s pre-polling booth, which opened at Tugun on Monday, have revealed that Ms Palmer and incumbent LNP MP Laura Gerber will be swapping first preferences.
Ms Gerber narrowly won the marginal seat from Labor’s Kaylee Campradt in a march by-election after long-serving former Newman Government Jann Stuckey’s resigned suddenly, citing mental health issues she blamed on alleged LNP bullying.
She and her GP husband Richard later resigned from the LNP and Dr Stuckey is now standing as an independent in Currumbin.
In another intriguing twist, he is exchanging preferences with Ms Campradt, who in turn has the Greens candidate Peter Burgoyne second on her how-to-vote card, with Dr Stuckey third.
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation candidate Glen Wadsworth, meanwhile, is preferencing Dr Stuckey while putting Ms Gerber and Ms Campradt sixth and seventh, respectively, on his how-to-vote card in Currumbin, which is being contested by a field of eight candidates.
Ms Gerber won Currumbin by just 567 votes as the LNP suffered a 2.1 per cent swing to hold the seat at the by-election.
