Luke Grant is joined by the federal member for Higgins, Dr Katie Allen, who was at Kimberley Kitching’s funeral service yesterday.

Coverage of the event was respectful, the Herald Sun reporting that on the final day of her life, as Kimberley Kitching worried about whether her parliamentary career was about to be taken away from her, she drove to the bakery. The Labor senator wanted to bring home a treat for her husband Andrew Landeryou, who found it on the passenger seat of her car on the side of the road in Strathmore, where she had suffered a suspected heart attack.

Landeryou said she was the “truest and staunchest of Labor true believers” who “fought like a lioness” for her members in the Health Services Union, for repressed minority groups overseas, for the underdog. It baffled her that this was used against her by some in her party, down to her final days when her factional rivals delayed confirming her preselection for another term in the Senate. “Politics can be — maybe it even has to be — fickle,” Landeryou said. “But Kimberley was not.”

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