Nostalgia has strange powers. With Kelly O’Dwyer pulling the pin on her federal parliamentary career and vacating the previously ultra-safe but now probably not-so-much seat of Higgins, people are popping up in the media longing for a comeback by the previous member. Writes Peter Van Onselen in The Australian:
If Costello returned at the next election in his old seat of Higgins, he would hold it, staving off a challenge by the Greens.
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