The Borg is back: Lawrence Springborg returns to state politics
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The “Father of the LNP”, Lawrence Springborg, has returned to state politics after overwhelmingly being elected party president.
Amid a grassroots movement for change within Queensland’s conservative party, Mr Springborg, 53, was voted in as the party’s new president at the LNP state convention on Saturday.
Lawrence Springborg has been returned as LNP state president.
Credit:Renee Melides
Mr Springborg delivered a brief statement to waiting journalists, without taking questions, stating he did not intend to run public commentary on the party in his voluntary position as president.
Former councillor Kate Richards uses LNPâs own rules in defamation claim
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Former Brisbane councillor Kate Richards has justified suing a dozen of the LNPâs top brass, including the lord mayor she served alongside, citing the partyâs own rules to argue they are all culpable in her alleged defamation.
It comes after the party released a media statement in December 2019 announcing the disendorsement of the sitting LNP councillor ahead of last yearâs council election and referring her to the Crime and Corruption Commission over unspecified âextremely graveâ allegations.
Former Pullenvale councillor Kate Richards outside Brisbane City Hall in March 2020.