Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Hughes ya kasance dan takarar Sanata wanda bai yi nasara ba a zaben tarayya na 2016. Duk da haka, a lokacin rikicin zaben 'yan majalisa na 2017
, ta lashe zaben da za a zabi wanda zai maye gurbin Sanata Fiona Nash, amma ba a ayyana ta a matsayin zaɓaɓɓu ba saboda Babban Kotun Ostiraliya, wanda ke zama a matsayin Kotun Rubuce-rubucen Rubuce-rubuce, ya yanke hukuncin cewa ba ta cancanci a zabe ta ba saboda aikinta a matsayin memba na Kotun daukaka kara na Gudanarwa.