Karen Andrews, the first senior Liberal to go on record about the prospect of a Josh Frydenberg return, says the party needs him to challenge for his old seat – despite already having a candidate locked in.
Senior Liberals are backing former treasurer Josh Frydenberg to return to federal parliament by running for the blue-ribbon seat of Kooyong against independent member Monique Ryan, sparking fury within the party about a move to dump chosen candidate Amelia Hamer.
“Josh Frydenberg, in my view, is someone we need to bring back into the Liberal Party and into federal politics,” Andrews told this masthead on Sunday. Hamer, the 31-year-old Oxford-educated grand-niece of former Victorian premier Sir Rupert “Dick” Hamer,Amelia Hamer, the 31-year-old Oxford-educated grand-niece of former Victorian premier Sir Rupert “Dick” Hamer, won preselection to replace Frydenberg in Kooyong.
The AEC draft decision on Friday, which could be challenged by political parties before being finalised in coming months, moved about 30,000 voters from Liberal strongholds such as Armadale, Toorak and Malvern into the electorate of Kooyong.
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