...sympathy him if he had done so. Barnes, who is now member of the Australian Democrats, begins his critique of the Liberal Party with a description of events that led to his departure from the party of which he had been a member for twenty years:

On 3 February 2002, the Tasmanian Liberal Party met in Campbelltown to do something it had never done before--disendorse a candidate, in this case who was running for the Hobart based-seat of Denison in that year's forthcoming state election. The candidate's 'crime' had been to speak out loudly and often against the federal Liberal Party government...

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