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"Kernot's Labor gamble": front page of the Sydney Morning Herald on October 16, 1997

From the Archives, 1997: Kernot's Labor gamble

In a shock coup, the leader of the Australian Democrats, Cheryl Kernot, quit the Senate and defected to the Labor Party to stand as an ALP candidate at the next federal election.

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