Claire Kimball

So the reason I'm celebrity guest starring.

on this shortcut is that I'm a Farrar girl.

That's where I come from, based in Albury.

Long-time Squizzers know this.

I'll be able to bring some local experience and maybe some town name pronunciation as well.

And when you're from regional Australia, you know that that's very important.

But yes, on to by-elections.

Let's start there.

Yeah.

It was, I remember National Party leader back in the day, Doug Anthony, said the only way you get out of parliament is through dismissal, disgrace or death.

The three Ds.

Those are the ones.

When it comes to this by-election, of course, it's because Susan Lee, who has held the seat of Farrar for 25 years, almost 25 years.

Yeah.

She has resigned because she lost the Liberal Party leadership, of course, at the start of this year to Angus Taylor.

We won't go down that rabbit hole.

That's called a casual vacancy in the Senate.

And it's not actually, well, it kind of is actually the party that picks it.

It's the Premier of the state who gets the tick off, but convention is.

Like even if you had a Labor Premier, but it was a Liberal Senator who vacated, they would probably replace him.