Meet the Gold Coast candidates you’ve never heard of
LAW and politics graduates, environmentalists, activists and a film extra are among the lesser-known candidates for Gold Coast electorates.
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LAW and politics graduates, environmentalists, activists and a film extra are among the lesser-known candidates for Gold Coast electorates.
Campaign advertising ramped up instantly after nominations closed on Tuesday, with 56 candidates stepping up for the region’s 10 seats.
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Family First are fielding a candidate in every seat except Southport, while One Nation is also having a crack in Broadwater and Currumbin.
Five independents have also raised their hands.
Albert Greens candidate Jane Cajdler runs a solar-cooking business in Brisbane with her husband Stan.
Ms Cajdler unsuccessfully ran for the southern Brisbane seat of Stretton in the 2009 election.
The Greens’ Coomera candidate Chris Wisbey won 6.04 per cent of the vote for the same seat in 2012.
He is a sales and marketing manager for Ballast Group.
Mr Wisbey’s party running mate Petrina Maizey unsuccessfully contested Coomera in 2009, but is running for Southport in 2015.
Family First Gaven candidate Ben O’Brien, is a former Bond Uni law student, who had a crack at Broadwater in 2012.
Greens candidate for Gaven Toni McPherson is a former Griffith University politics student who ran for the Federal seat of Moncrieff in 2013.
Broadwater Greens candidate Daniel Kwon describes himself as a “humanist, volunteer and student” who lives at Hope Island.
His work experience, listed online, includes a role as adviser assistant at Boston Private Wealth and as an extra on Angelina Jolie’s film Unbroken.
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