Federal pollies jumping to state politics

FEDERAL PARLIAMENTARIANS WHO HAVE GONE BACK TO STATE OR LOCAL POLITICS

* Nick Xenophon: Independent senator since 2008 making a second tilt at South Australian politics.

* Guy Barnett: Tasmanian Liberal senator, now resources minister in the Hodgman government.

* Michael Ferguson: Liberal MP, now Tasmania's health minister.

* Harry Woods: Labor MP who became a NSW government minister.

* Yvette D'Ath: Labor MP, now attorney-general in the Queensland Palaszczuk government.

* John Brumby: Labor MP who became Victorian premier.

* Robb Hulls: Queensland Labor MP for one term who went into Victorian state politics and became attorney-general.

* Alannah MacTiernan: Served in Western Australian state politics for 17 years, had a stint as a local mayor, before becoming a federal MP for a term. She's now back in WA state parliament and is agriculture minister.

* Philip Ruddock: Former coalition minister, now mayor of Hornsby in northern Sydney.