Kristina Keneally (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

They were in the wrong electorate, as Senator Polley points out. They had the bad luck to be living in a seat that the government didn't think was worth their while to spend money on in an election campaign. So what did they do? They gave money to the seat of Sturt, which we all remember was contested as a seat at the last election. It was abandoned by the former member Christopher Pyne. He probably felt they were going to lose.