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July 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Former senior Howard government press secretary and journalist Malcolm Cole has once again thrown his hat into the ring for a seat in federal parliament.
The Liberal National Party (LNP) endorsed Mr Cole’s bid to contest the seat of Moreton, in Brisbane’s south, on Saturday.
He narrowly lost a previous challenge against sitting Labor MP Graham Perrett in the 2010 federal election.
Mr Perrett weathered a 4.9 per cent swing against him to win Moreton on preferences.
Mr Cole was senior political adviser to former Howard government ministers Alexander Downer and Santo Santoro in the final 18 months of the coalition’s reign under Mr Howard.
He also worked as a journalist for AAP and Brisbane masthead The Courier-Mail in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Mr Cole has worked as a communications consultant since 2007, and says his background in the media is good preparation for a parliamentary role.
“It’s a whole suite of experience you get from listening to people and understanding their issues and problems and trying to find out ways to solve them,” he told AAP.
Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has refused to take sides in the battle for party preselection in parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper’s seat of Fisher.
Former Howard minister Mal Brough and the LNP’s former Queensland campaign director James McGrath are both vying for the chance to contest the Sunshine Coast electorate.
“I know Mal, I work with Mal and Mal’s a friend of mine, but there are lots of good people … who are putting their hands up for preselection and, in the end, this is a matter that has to be decided by the local party,” Mr Abbott told reporters on the Gold Coast on Saturday.
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