Senator axed as Gillard takes Olympian as 'captain's pick'

By Michelle Grattan
January 23 2013 - 3:00am

VETERAN senator Trish Crossin has lashed out at Julia Gillard's demand that the Labor Party dump her for Aboriginal gold medallist Nova Peris, who will become Labor's first indigenous federal MP.

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