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Tim Wilson (second from right) posing with campaign staff.

Police mystery as Lib candidate cops a (primary) schooling in campaigning

It’s a case of claim and counterclaim over an election campaign effort outside a school. One side says there was an apology.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman

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Amelia Hamer, the 31-year-old Oxford-educated grandniece of former Victorian premier Sir Rupert “Dick” Hamer.

Amelia Hamer pitched herself as a renter. She owns two investment properties

The Oxford-educated grandniece of former Victorian premier Rupert Hamer describes herself as a renter and someone who empathises with tenants’ struggles.

  • Rachael Dexter
Monique Ryan’s husband Peter Jordan is seen in video footage removing a sign supporting her Liberal rival Amelia Hamer.

Monique Ryan, husband apologise after he is filmed removing Liberal sign

Videos have emerged showing other vandals slashing posters in the teal MP’s affluent electorate as part of an increasingly bitter campaign in which incidents have led to court appearances.

  • Olivia Ireland and Rachael Dexter
Lindsay and Paula Fox.

Old family links put a Fox among the Liberals in Kooyong

Lindsay Fox says he was a friend to Rupert Hamer until the day the former Victorian premier died. He is now backing Amelia Hamer in Kooyong.

  • Chip Le Grand
Josh Frydenberg

Frydenberg 2.0 presents a problem for the Liberals

A faction in Kooyong has started to agitate for Mr Josh Frydenberg to be the Liberal candidate in this seat. The current selected candidate, Amelia Hamer, won the right to be the candidate with a large majority vote nine weeks ago. Will we next hear that she has “generously” stepped aside for Mr Frydenberg? Being a woman, she must know what action is expected of her.

Josh Frydenberg hoses down speculation of a return to politics.

The Liberal Party created the perfect female candidate in ... Josh Frydenberg?

Could it be that a boundary redistribution was a pretext to Fryden-float this balloon of an idea of a return to politics for the former treasurer?

  • Jacqueline Maley
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Teals composite index. From left: Rob Baillieu, Simon Holmes a Court, Victor Franco

Simon Holmes a Court, the son of a Liberal premier, and their hopes for a local ‘teal wash’

Teal candidates were the surprise success at the last federal election. Now the people who backed them to win are targeting local government.

  • Cara Waters
Amelia Hamer.

Oxford blues: Why the Liberals’ Kooyong candidate was cancelled at uni

Newly minted Liberal Party hopeful Amelia Hamer’s time at an Oxford University student paper ended in acrimony.

  • Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
Amelia Hamer, with her dog Juno, will take on teh teals as the Liberal Party’s candidate for Josh Frydenberg’s former seat of Kooyong.

I’m no nepo-baby: The plan to wrest back a blue-ribbon Liberal seat from a teal

Amelia Hamer is a female Millennial finance professional who rents – the very demographic that helped unseat former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the inner-Melbourne seat of Kooyong. Now, the 31-year-old from a prominent political dynasty has been tasked with winning it back.

  • Annika Smethurst
Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has backed Amelia Hamer to run for the Liberal Party in the seat of Kooyong.

Liberal royalty to take on Monique Ryan in Frydenberg’s former seat of Kooyong

Amelia Hamer was considered a frontrunner for the seat despite a late surge in support for Rochelle Pattison, the chair of Transgender Victoria.

  • Annika Smethurst and Paul Sakkal

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