Underdog has learned lessons

By Noel Towell
Updated January 16 2018 - 11:12pm, first published October 6 2012 - 3:00am

At the 2008 election, Canberra Liberals leader Zed Seselja was the new kid on the ACT political block, hoping to storm into the Chief Minister's job with a quick defeat of the veteran Jon Stanhope. Four years later, Seselja is applying for the job a second time but in a fundamentally changed political climate and against a very different incumbent in Stanhope's successor, Katy Gallagher. Seselja talked to Chief Assembly Reporter Noel Towell this week about what he's learned in the past four years, being the underdog in the October 20 poll and why Tony Abbott won't be joining him on the campaign trail.

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