As I keep telling @Lawry , the only Poll that matters is the one on that Saturday in May.
As the campaign proceeds and I am doing my usual labour for Labor, I am finding two things. Firstly there are a lot of angry people who are struggling and don’t care too much about any politician or politics at present. And the second thing is that most people only care about economic survival and have shut down anything outside their own needs, like climate, world economy and conflicts.
I really don’t know how much you can trust a TPP poll when the primary ALP + LNP vote is between 66-68%.
Story in today’s Age about the Liberal candidate for Kooyong. Political aspirants are so stupid if they think the facts about them will not surface, and be reported in the worst possible way.
Amelia Hamer pitched herself as a renter. She owns two properties
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Amelia Hamer, the Liberal Party’s great hope to wrest the blue-ribbon seat of Kooyong back from the teals, has pitched herself as a renter and someone who empathises with tenants’ struggles.
But The Age can reveal that while the Oxford-educated 31-year-old is renting in Hawthorn, she is a landlord and owns two investment properties - a million-dollar flat in inner London and an apartment in Canberra, both bought in the past decade.
UK Property Title documents obtained by The Age show Hamer bought a flat in Wandsworth, south-west London, in June 2017 for £635,000 ($1.07 million at the time). Online price estimate websites suggest the property is now worth £679,000 ($1.46 million).
The property is listed online as a one-bedroom, one-bathroom flat, but Hamer was seeking to rent the property out as a two-bedroom flat in 2020 for £1600 a month (about $3000 at the time), according to public Facebook posts in a group for flat shares in London.
In the post, from June 2020, Hamer said she was ‘stuck in Australia so am renting out my 2 bed ground floor flat for the foreseeable future’.
When approached with a list of questions by The Age about her London property, Hamer responded with a two-sentence statement that revealed the existence of another property she owns in Canberra.
‘While working in London and Canberra, I took out mortgages to buy the apartments that I lived in,’ Hamer said in the statement. ‘Now that I’m back living in Melbourne, I am renting in Hawthorn.’
She did not respond to a question about why she had not disclosed her home ownership when discussing renting and housing affordability.
Hamer, who is challenging Kooyong independent MP Monique Ryan in the May 3 election, is the grandniece of former Victorian premier Sir Rupert ‘■■■■’ Hamer. Her campaign has won the support of billionaire trucking magnate Lindsay Fox, who was friends with Sir Rupert.
Fox has erected a campaign poster of the local Liberal candidate on his Toorak home’s wall.
According to Hamer’s LinkedIn profile, she worked in Canberra in the federal parliament as a policy adviser to then-cabinet minister Jane Hume between January 2021 and July 2022. Between 2014 and 2020, Hamer was living in London and worked for Bank of America and investment firm DST Global.
A spokesman for Hamer confirmed the Canberra property was being rented out.
A profile of Hamer in the Australian Financial Review last year, titled ‘Oxford-educated renter brings Millennial edge to Kooyong battle’, described Hamer as ‘a renter wanting to get into the housing market’.
On the Today Show in June, when talking about the rising cost of living, Hamer said: ‘I know my rent has gone up significantly - I’m a renter.’
The Age last year described Hamer as a ‘Millennial finance professional who rents’.
Her campaign emphasises making home ownership more achievable for young Australians with the Liberal’s policy pledge to allow young people to access their superannuation for a home deposit.
Recently on 3AW, she spoke about the plight of young Australians, who she said felt like ‘it doesn’t matter how hard I work, it doesn’t matter what I do, I’m never going to have that same quality of life that my parents had’.
The revelation of Hamer’s investment property portfolio is likely to be seized on by Ryan, who is fighting to retain Kooyong.
Ryan owns one property, in which she lives, according to her parliamentary register of interests.
Wifey neglected the arseward stubble. Bad wifey.
So stupid, so Liberal. I’m jack of Albo’s back story but at least it’s real. As if anyone with that last name is ever going to know struggle in those terms.
What shame she’s ‘stuck in Australia’ and having such rough go of it, fark off landed gentlewoman
Wtf
Classing gas as a “critical mineral” would qualify gas drillers for support from a $4b loans facility.
is albo is so completely unaware that everyone has heard his back story aillio times ? it’s cringeworthy how he still continues to bring it up whenever he gets a chance
Labor’s troupe of PR monkeys have been shocking since Shorten’s tilt. How hard is it to employ some people who live in the real world? I guess at least they’re not hiring the likes of hell bound carnts Topham Guerin. Wonder if they’re getting another massive contract to post memes on Facebook?
Not excusing her, but it is so easy to do and especially as many of us have a lifetime of writing resumes that leave out the juicy bits and exaggerate wildly on other things that you think will never be traced. Never underestimate the investigative power of sleazy journalists.
Why is it wrong to tell the truth ? Some only see that he bought a $4.5 million dollar house. I reckon it is good to hear that a Leader has walked in your shoes at a time in his life. Even in the case of Peter Dutton, he has made a success of his life. Not every Qld Cop ends up a multimillionaire, some get caught being a crook and go to jail !
You said yourself it’s stupid. It’s beyond stupid though, it’s a brazen lie and a deeply cynical attempt to cosplay solidarity with real renters while playing up the notion that Labor and Greens are responsible for a housing crisis seeded and watched over by her own party which has been in power for the majority of its duration.
Fark her and I hope it sinks her nepo campaign
You seek to represent communities and determine the shape of their very lives you need to be held to account all hours, I don’t care if the journo is a sleaze, they’re doing their job well to expose this sort of crap
The only difference is Dutton didn’t get caught.
It’s astounding how no “journalist” has ever bothered to look into his time as a cop.
The stories of his abuse of power are as easy to come across as they are horrific.
As if that matters in Kooyong.
And the Libs would regard duplicity as a virtue.
An embarrassing admission really, “Only two? And flats? “
Actually Prof, I reckon it does. My Sister lives in Kooyong (as well as her other place on the Slopes of Mt Martha), and she is a strong Liberal. She says that this slip up will cost Hamer any chance as they need the younger conservatives to drop the Teals and move back to Liberals, and most of them are renters.
Now I still think Hamer is a good chance to win Kooyong but being stupid and caught in a lie does not help.
Easy to forget that you own two properties? Yes, I can see that.
Bacchus, please…
Remeber ‘Friendlyjordies’. Not saying it was connected but his forays into Dutton’s links with a cocaine importing panel beating outfit and subsequent firebombing of his house may have deterred any intrepid mainstream ‘journalists’ from looking too much at good Peter’s past. I’m sure Peter’s relationship was purely about some hot caps for his suitably non descript family car
A case of good journalism to report a liberal liar.
Not forgetting what you own for most of us, but when you or someone is putting your bio together, and she does rent in Kooyong, then it is not a great leap to leave something out.
