We need politicians of Andrew Charlton’s calibre, but rank-and-file votes won’t always deliver them

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    Abstract

    The solid toiler or the future PM without roots in the local community? The local worthy or the blow-in on the make? These are choices bedevilling party preselections across politics on the eve of a likely May 14 federal election, less than two months from now.

    The solid toiler could, of course, turn out to be a future leader – think former supermarket trolley boy Peter Malinauskas, just elected as South Australia’s Premier.

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