Potential candidates include opposition party’s federal vice-president and upper house MP Matt Bach as Labor considers whether to contest electorate
The Victorian opposition will face voters for the first time since John Pesutto took on the leadership, with a byelection to be held following the resignation of the long-serving Liberal MP Ryan Smith.
They include the Liberal party’s federal vice-president, Caroline Inge, Manningham councillor Michelle Kleinert, KPMG director Sarah Overton and former Box Hill candidate Nicole Werner.Inge, who previously worked as an electorate officer for the former Liberal MP Tim Smith, confirmed she was “weighing up” a tilt for the seat which the party currently holds with a 4.2% margin.
Her former boss, who resigned as the member for Kew after a drunken car crash in 2021 and has been living in London since last year,. He could not be reached for comment. “She ticks all the boxes: she’s from the area, she’s a professional woman, she knows what she’s talking about when it comes to one of the biggest state issues – health,” they said., but lost to Roshena Campbell.win by a government from an opposition at a byelection in more than 100 yearsKos Samaras, a former Victorian Labor assistant state secretary who is now a pollster with RedBridge Group, said Warrandyte was a “safe seat on paper” but had a similar demographic profile to Aston.
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