Former Queensland Labor Minister Quits Party to Run Against MP

Former Queensland Labor Minister Quits Party to Run Against MP
Labor candidate Peter Beattie and local member Margaret Keech (R) pose for a photo with a worker at the Yatala Pie shop at Beenleigh in Brisbane, Australia, on Aug. 14, 2013. AAP Image/Bradley Kanaris
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A former long-serving Labor cabinet minister has come out of retirement to challenge the incumbent Labor MP that she helped get elected in the upcoming Queensland elections.

Margaret Keech, the former women’s and tourism minister in the Peter Beattie and Anna Bligh governments between 2001 and 2012, says the Labor Party now only listens to factional powerbrokers and inner-city Green voters and not the working class.

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