Failed Labor Senate candidate and Tasmanian union boss Kevin Harkins has accused the Prime Minister of breaking an ALP agreement not to oppose him if he sought pre-selection.
Mr Harkins has spoken for the first time since Labor’s national executive rejected a recommendation from the state branch to give him a winnable spot on Tasmania’s Senate ticket.
The outspoken Electrical Trades Union boss believes comments made by Kevin Rudd in Parliament led to the rejection of his bid for pre-selection in favour of the ousted state Labor MP Lisa Singh.
Mr Rudd last year said Mr Harkins was a pugilist who had “Buckley’s” chance of pre-selection.
Mr Harkins has told the 7.30 Report that senior ALP figures agreed in 2007 not to oppose his candidacy in the future.
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