Fadden could deliver a blow or a boost to Dutton. He can hardly afford the former, and desperately needs the latter.
Extremist candidates and threats of federal intervention ensure the Victorian Liberal Party remains no closer to resolving its woes.
Peter Dutton on Saturday faces his first real-time electoral test in the Victorian seat of Aston, with the conditions on the track heavy going
Formerly blue-ribbon Liberal seats such as Hawthorn and Nepean have fallen to Labor in the wash-up of Labor’s thumping state election win.