Bill Shorten's hopes of more female MPs ignored as union numbers used to dump sitting senator

By Mark Kenny
Updated August 29 2015 - 3:08pm, first published August 28 2015 - 7:29pm
Senator Lisa Singh, pictured during an estimates hearing at Parliament House, has been dropped to the fourth spot on Labor's Senate ticket in Tasmania.  Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Senator Lisa Singh, pictured during an estimates hearing at Parliament House, has been dropped to the fourth spot on Labor's Senate ticket in Tasmania. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Pushed aside by union numbers: Labor senator Lisa Singh during a Senate estimates hearing. Photo: Andrew Meares
Pushed aside by union numbers: Labor senator Lisa Singh during a Senate estimates hearing. Photo: Andrew Meares

Dumped Labor senator Lisa Singh was the preferred choice of her party's rank and file in a pre-selection race but lost her spot on the Senate ticket in a factional power-play to a little-known union official.

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