Former Coalition Senator Sam McMahon will enter the upcoming Australian federal election race as a candidate for the libertarian-leaning Liberal Democrats. The former senator resigned in late January from the Country Liberal Party (CLP)—part of the governing centre-right Coalition—after losing a tough pre-selection contest to former Alice Springs councillor Jacinta Price. McMahon will now be competing against her former party colleague when she enters the race for one the Northern Territory’s two Senate seats. “I’ve had a fair beating from politics. I was happy to step away. I did not want to continue on in politics,” she told reporters in Darwin on April 8. “But I have exercised my female prerogative to change my mind, and that is what I have done.” McMahon said the CLP was in shambles and that she was impressed by the professionalism of the Liberal Democrats. She will be running alongside former CLP members, Kylie …