The independent launched his political career with a viral video backing wind farms via a windmill dance. Now he won’t say if he backs offshore wind. Voters say that won’t work.
Alex Dyson and his girlfriend Anneliese Wilson. Dyson has a strong ground game but faces an uphill battle to defeat the Liberals in the regional Victorian seat for the first time since the 1950s. Joanne O’Keefe
Humour has long been an effective political weapon for Alex Dyson. The former youth radio host launched his first campaign with an interpretative dance where he backed renewable energy by impersonating a windmill.
“Humour is good at picking apart hypocrisy and I think it offers something refreshing in politics, which is an incessantly negative space,” Dyson, 36, says from his campaign office.
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