Former Parliamentarians Association to reach out to likely ‘bitter and angry’ defeated MPs after Tuesday’s election

Advice to new MPs: it's a near impossible juggling act of personal pressures and professional expectations.

Politics is a brutish business, and when some federal political careers inevitably meet their maker in the 2008 election, it can be a humiliating and difficult thing to deal with it.

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