Alex Antic’s rise in SA Liberals has coincided with a collapse in the party’s vote. Is there further to fall?

Election of rightwing senator – once called a ‘vote-losing machine’ – as state president in South Australia takes party further from the centre

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Rogue Liberal senator Alex Antic says he will give “back some voice” to party members now that he has been elected as state president in South Australia.

Many of those members are part of “Alex’s Army”, the evangelical and Pentecostal Christians the federal MP recruited into the operational wing of the party.

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