Hollie is the only candidate that I have ever known throughout my long time in the Liberal Party that has won a preselection, the previous Senate preselection, where she was selected to lead the ticket, and stood aside at the request of the then Prime Minister.
She stepped aside and continued to campaign and fundraise from position 6 on the ticket. As Former State Minister Ted Pickering said to me in my first preselection ballot against Senator John Tierney, which he won, “Son, to run for the Senate, you have to have served your time in the Party”.
Hollie has well and truly served her time…