A parachute candidate, or carpetbagger in the United States, is a pejorative term for an election candidate who does not live in, and has little connection to, the area they are running to represent. The allegation is thus that the candidate is being “parachuted in” for the job by a desperate political party that has no reliable talent local to the district or state, or that the party (or the candidate themselves) wishes to give a candidate an easier election than would happen in their home area. Australia Australian Labor Party Due to its factions, Labor often has arrangements in place for preselections, which would often result in parachuting candidates. Examples of such include Former Premier of New South Wales Kristina Keneally and Midnight Oil member Peter Garrett. In 2004, musician and activist Peter Garrett was preselected as the Australian Labor Party candidate for the safe seat of Kingsford Smith due to the intervention of leader Mark Latham, despite opposition from the local ALP branch, who labelled him an outsider. The CFMEU issued a statement criticising his selection as "a pathetic version of political celebrity squares". In 2007, journalist Maxine McKew was preselected as Labor candidate for Bennelong, held by then-Prime Minister John Howard. McKew did not live in the electorate at the time, and sold her home in Mosman to move prior to the election. She went on to defeat Howard, becoming the first candidate to unseat a sitting Prime Minister in an election since 1929. In 2013, athlete Nova Peris was preselected as Labor's leading candidate for the Senate in the Northern Territory. Peris was born and raised in the Northern Territory, but her selection was received with controversy due to her celebrity status and the personal intervention of leader and Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who described the selection as a "captain's pick". Jane Garrett, a former minister in the First Andrews Ministry in Victoria was parachuted into the number one position in the Eastern Victoria Region at the 2018 Victorian state election, a seat vacated by future MP Daniel Mulino for the Division of Fraser in Melbourne's western suburbs. Garrett had been the MP for the Electoral district of Brunswick which was becoming increasingly marginal and was criticised for her role in a dispute between the Country Fire Authority, the United Firefighters Union and the state government in her capacity as Minister for Emergency Services. Daniel Mulino