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Influential Tasmanian Liberal powerbroker Eric Abetz has been demoted to third place on the party s Senate ticket in a shock preselection vote.
It could signal the end of Senator Abetz s almost three-decade Senate career, given that third place on the ticket is difficult to win.
Senator Abetz lost votes to outer ministry senate colleague Jonno Duniam in first place, and Senator Wendy Askew in second.
It was widely speculated that Senators Abetz and Duniam would take the top two positions at the next federal election, with Senator Askew in third.
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Tasmanian electoral analyst Kevin Bonham said Senator Abetz s senate seat was not unwinnable at the next poll, but he was in a risky position.
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