Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Dreyfus went on to say:

A measure of the party’s self-confidence should be an easing of the discipline, the ‘closed backroom-ness’ that formal factionalism inevitably brings.

I guess Mr Dreyfus was banking on this easing of factionalism occurring only after he had managed to secure his own preselection. The fact is, rotten though the process may have been, Mr Dreyfus is the endorsed ALP candidate for Isaacs. You might expect, having been preselected over a year ago, that Mr Dreyfus would be living in the electorate he seeks to serve—you might, but you would be wrong. He lives in Malvern in the seat of Higgins, and he has no intention to move either before or after the election.