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The Teals: loud, entitled and rich

Why we lost Kooyong

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

For the first time in our history a candidate representing the left has won the federal seat of Kooyong. This result does not surprise me. At the 2018 Victorian state election three of the four electorates within Kooyong were lost by the Liberals to Labor. I held Kew, where Bob Menzies lived, because the locals, many of whom don’t like me, knew what I stood for.

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