The Oxford-educated grandniece of former Victorian premier Rupert Hamer describes herself as a renter and someone who empathises with tenants’ struggles.
Videos have emerged showing other vandals slashing posters in the teal MP’s affluent electorate as part of an increasingly bitter campaign in which incidents have led to court appearances.
Lindsay Fox says he was a friend to Rupert Hamer until the day the former Victorian premier died. He is now backing Amelia Hamer in Kooyong.
A faction in Kooyong has started to agitate for Mr Josh Frydenberg to be the Liberal candidate in this seat. The current selected candidate,Amelia Hamer,won the right to be the candidate with a large majority vote nine weeks ago. Will we next hear that she has “generously” stepped aside for Mr Frydenberg? Being a woman,she must know what action is expected of her.
Could it be that a boundary redistribution was a pretext to Fryden-float this balloon of an idea of a return to politics for the former treasurer?
Teal candidates were the surprise success at the last federal election. Now the people who backed them to win are targeting local government.
Amelia Hamer is a female Millennial finance professional who rents – the very demographic that helped unseat former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the inner-Melbourne seat of Kooyong. Now,the 31-year-old from a prominent political dynasty has been tasked with winning it back.
Amelia Hamer was considered a frontrunner for the seat despite a late surge in support for Rochelle Pattison,the chair of Transgender Victoria.
Pattison would be the Liberal Party’s first transgender candidate if she won preselection for Kooyong.
Susan Morris,who runs a practice in Kew,told friends on the weekend that she planned to nominate for Liberal preselection in Melbourne’s wealthy inner east.