A high -profile liberal candidate postulates to claim an old blue Ribón seat has been accused of keeping voters in the dark about their property interests.
Amelia Hamer, the granddaughter of former Victorian Prime Minister Rupert Hamer, has repeatedly presented himself as a tenant to appeal to young voters frustrated at Kooyong’s headquarters in the center of East Melbourne.
But the 31 -year -old has been forced to clarify before the federal elections of May 3, admitting that he also has two properties outside Melbourne.
“While working in London and Canberra, I took mortgages to buy the apartments I lived in,” Hamer said in a statement.
“Now that I’m living in Melbourne, I’m renting in Hawthorn.”
Mrs. Hamer studied at Oxford University before working in banking, risk capital and technology.
His profile on the website of the Liberal Party says he wants to “help more locals to achieve the dream of housing property” and “will fight for policies so that housing ownership is more attainable for young Australians.”
In the period prior to the survey, Mrs. Hamer told the media that she was renting an apartment in a room but did not reveal that she was an owner.
“I know that my rent has increased significantly, I am a tenant,” he said in Nine’s show today.
He is the first big false step of his impulse to recover Kooyong after Monique Ryan, Independiente de Teal Ryan, unleashed former deputy director and liberal treasurer Josh Frydenberg in 2022.
Mrs. Ryan accused her political rival of trying to deceive the people of Kooyong.
“The problem here is not that it has two properties,” AAP told AAP in a statement.
“It is that by painting herself as a millenary tenant, he cheated on people by not revealing that they also owned and owner.”
The councilor of the city of Borondara, Rob Baillieu, who volunteered in the 2022 campaign of Mrs. Ryan, went further by stating that Mrs. Hamer had lied about being a “tenant with difficulties” while possessing millions of dollars in properties.
“She has been political for five minutes and has already lied to you,” he wrote in an X post, previously known as Twitter.
“Why would you vote for her?”
Mrs. Ryan, former pediatric neurologist and medical researcher, was among a series of community independents to expel liberal parliamentarians from the old Heartland seats in 2022.
She won Kooyong by 2.9 percent, but a redistribution has reduced the margin to 2.2 percent, although demography is biased younger as more millennials and the members of generation Z move to the area.
The face -to -to -face battle between Mrs. Ryan and Mrs. Hamer has heated on the ground since the elections were called.
Mrs. Ryan’s spouse, Peter Jordan, apologized after video images arose eliminating a sign that promotes her main political rival.
Mrs. Hamer was also scrutinized for retiring from a short -term candidates forum to participate in a massive phone call to residents with the Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor.
