‘This is a joke’: Farcical scenes as Warringah candidate Katherine Deves ushered into pub event | michaelkoziol
Voters and Liberal Party members were kept waiting more than 45 minutes to meet controversial candidate Katherine Deves on Friday night as advisers schemed for her to avoid the media waiting at the Forestville RSL.
Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves enters the Forestville RSL for an event on Friday night.A compromise of sorts was reached: Deves could be photographed outside the RSL, where she would pause momentarily to make a statement and perhaps take one or two questions. That was quickly downgraded to a short statement only., made his displeasure known to Falinski’s adviser. “Is this an open democracy?” he asked. “Is she a candidate or not? This is a joke.
“I have fought for women and children, and now I’m fighting for Warringah,” she said. “Thank you all for coming along tonight. I am looking forward to campaigning hard over the next four weeks on the issues that affect the people in Warringah.”Credit:With that, Deves was immediately escorted inside by her campaign adviser James Flynn, a conservative Liberal operative who was once a staffer to state Liberal minister Anthony Roberts.