Looking back over the last political year, I could not help but reflect that we certainly send some interesting representatives from Victoria to sit in the federal parliament. Two of them made a mark in the last sitting week, Senator Lidia Thorpe, the firebrand renegade who left the Greens because it was not left-wing enough for her and Senator Ralph Babet who was elected to the last remaining Senate spot for Victoria with the help of a $100 million donation from Clive Palmer.
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