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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

Where now for Victorian Liberals after ‘massive loss’ of Matt Bach?

Victorian Liberal Matt Bach
Victorian Liberal Matt Bach (pictured) announced he was quitting politics to move to the UK with his young family at the end of the year. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

In less than a week the Victorian Liberal leadership went from heralding the “new dawn” of a byelection win to facing an even newer dusk as it lost one of its most valued MPs.

Matt Bach, the upper house MP seen as a future leader by many of his colleagues, shocked the party room on Thursday night when he announced he was quitting politics to move to the UK with his young family at the end of the year.

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