Im proud to represent the electorate of Kooyong as your Independent Federal Member. Kooyong has existed since Federation and has had just seven members in 121 years, all from the conservative side of politics. In 2019, high-profile Greens candidate Julian Burnside received the highest two-party preferred vote against the Liberals or their predecessors in 90 years, at 44.3%. Watch Joe on The Blame Game Fridays 8.30pm on Sky News or stream anytime on Flash, To join the conversation, please Independent Kooyong candidate admits previous Labor Party membership. While having views closely aligned to Dr Ryan, Colombian migrant Andrea, who has lived in Australia for 16 years, said her ballot was mostly about booting Mr Frydenberg. Election results in Kooyong at the 2019 federal election Toggle between two-candidate-preferred votes (Liberal vs Greens or Labor), two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for the Liberal Party, the Greens, Labor and independent candidates. Alicia Payne is the Labor candidate for the federal seat of Canberra in the ACT for the 2019 federal election. Kooyong covers most of the Boroondara council area and a strip of the Whitehorse council area, including the suburbs of Hawthorn, Kew, Camberwell, Canterbury, Mont Albert, Surrey Hills and Balwyn. In the Electorate of Kooyong we have a proud history of suppor See more 837 people like this 813 people follow this +61 3 9933 8500 Community @KooyongLabor Photos See all Videos See all 0:23 Kew which includes Kew, Kew East, Deepdene, Balwyn, Balwyn North and Canterbury. One post, shared on March 4, is a meme of Mr Frydenbergs face imposed into a Nazi uniform with the title, bogans heroes. A new poll puts Frydenberg ahead of Burnside 52% to 48%. The Prime Minister has warned a difficult Christmas lies ahead for thousands of Australians facing a myriad of hardships. The biggest risk to the government is not losing one or two wealthy seats to the green-left but losing quiet Australians to conservative splinter parties, with their ill-disciplined preference flows, that dont try to sit on both sides of the political fence.. More than a decade later, cleanskins like me have a new opportunity to express our convictions as true independents.. Independent MP Monique Ryan expressed ambitions to be a future prime minister and scolded her chief of staff for catching a plane while infected with COVID-19, court documents allege. He faced a strong preselection challenge in 2006, but managed to win more than two thirds of votes in the preselection. Spurred by one of the most sophisticated campaigns in Australian history, the campaign of paediatrician Dr Monique Ryan had grown from one-in-10 Kooyong votes in January to a position by budget night where Liberal Party research had her ahead by 4 points. Phobia is an irrational fear. Derryn Hinch's Justice Party is defending one seat. The Liberal/National Coalition are defending two seats. Were working to restore it. Germany was a very cultured nation and the barbarism was unbelievable, and at the very least Dr Ryan should apologise, Mr Maisel told The Australian. Dr Ryan agrees that the post could be seen as offensive and she is deeply regretful of any hurt that she has caused to any member of the community, including members of the Jewish community and all other communities persecuted by the Nazis, the spokesperson said. We also got dental (for children) into Medicare. Im a complete cleanskin.. Results 1983-2019, The map below highlights the expanding boundaries of Kooyong over the past three decades. Mia explained why she joined the School Strike movement. Treasurer and Liberal Party Deputy Leader. But tucked away in the southeast corner of the country is a small group of Labor supporters who can do even more for their party. In Macquarie, the most marginal seat in the country at the 2019 election, One Nation candidate Tony Pettitt won the top spot, while incumbent Labor MP Susan Templeman got second place. Hawthorn is the less Liberal part of Kooyong. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. You have entered an incorrect email address! Our team acknowledges that we live and work on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land, of the Kulin Nation. It would have allowed emissions to go up and allowed fossil fuel companies to be paid to emit. Animosity continued on election day between Kooyong candidates Josh Frydenberg and Monique Ryan. Frydenburg would run in Kew not Hawthorn. Australians value their world-class healthcare system, but the pandemic revealed significant shortcomings in caring for our most vulnerable. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. In the 2010 power-sharing Parliament with the Gillard government, the ETS was introduced the only time when emissions went down. Emily, a student of Geography and Economics asked Why do we as an extremely wealthy country repeatedly fail to do our bit to reduce climate change? She sees the shift away from fossil fuels as an opportunity to harness our wealth and vast resources to secure our future prosperity to become a world leader in renewable energy. Emily said she wants the government to lead the charge for a better tomorrow and develop a plan that all Australians can unite behind to secure a better future for the generations to come. What a pity Mr Frydenberg did not hear these two young and articulate residents of Kooyong. The candidates then responded to questions from Lighter Footprints and the audience. I know that if I am elected and am part of a group that has the balance of power I will not be swayed by personal ambitions, factionalism or backroom interests in standing for what I think is important: integrity and honesty in government, and strong action on climate change.. The Victorian Premier has spoken out after Queensland moved to make major changes to its drug laws. Votes are recorded for a particular candidate if the preference on the ballot paper for that candidate is higher than the alternative TCP candidate, regardless of other preferences. Turns out he did not., Prime Minister Scott Morrison campaigning in Queensland. Thats what being an independent is all about, and why the parties are so threatened by us. The voters would also probably find it a slap in the face for him to run again after an unceremonious rejection. Explosive allegations emerged in an unfair dismissal legal showdown between Member for Kooyong Dr Ryan and her chief of staff Sally Rugg in the Federal Court on Friday. "She's giving him a run for his money. With rising speculation of a leadership challenge from Howard (still deputy leader) in 1985, he attempted to replace Howard as deputy leader, but the party room re-elected Howard. The seat's best-known member was Sir Robert Menzies, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia. It is the first time since Federation that the seat has not been held by the Liberals or their predecessors. Background. The Liberal Party's defence against such a challenge would be to paint the Independent as being the same as Labor and the Greens, so preserving the electorate's underlying right versus left voting pattern. Dr Monique Ryan has been director of the neurology department at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne where she has headed a team of 45 people, responsible for a budget of $3.5 million a year. The Greens are defending one seat. After graduating in Medicine, he qualified as a Fellow of the College of Physicians and did a Masters at the University of New South Wales. The Liberals had anticipated a strong contest and doubled their campaign funding to Kooyong earlier in the year, from $500,000 to $1 million. There have been suggestions of Josh going to Spring Street. All they have to do is Vote 1 for the ALP and give Frydenberg their sloppy seconds. Lynch has worked as a Physician and Geriatrician in a wide variety of clinical, management and research positions in Victoria, Northern Territory, and the UK, in both the public and private sectors over the past 40 years. Hypothetical scenario Alan Tudge pulls the pin, John Pessutto goes to Aston, Josh to Hawthorn. Kooyong is an affluent inner Melbourne electorate covering suburbs east and south of the Yarra directly east from the Melbourne CBD. Derryn Hinch's Justice Party is defending one seat. The TCP count ultimately determines who wins the seat. A fluent French speaker, he has also spent periods working and studying in France. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. 1. charleston_cheww 8 min. These changes reduced the Liberal margin from 5.7% to 5.5%. There were Liberal majorities recorded at 27 of the 38 polling places used at the 2019 election, results ranging from 38.4% at Swinburne University in Hawthorn to 65.3% at Kennon Memorial Hall a little further south in Hawthorn. To make a comment or suggest a change to the election site, pleasecontact us. The Labor candidate doesn't live in Aston either. And with economic indicators heading the way they are the incoming government will have very restless and disaffected voters in those electorates to deal with. In the end I think Kooyong will be tight. From 1922 to 1994, it was held by only three members, all of whom went on to lead the non-Labor forces in Parliament former Opposition Leader and future Chief Justice John Latham, Menzies, and former Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock. Best returned to Parliament, but didnt serve in Joseph Cooks Liberal government or Billy Hughes Nationalist government. Sustainable Australia is defending one seat. ABC Q+A 26 May 2022 The Election Battle and 'Nicer' Politics ago. Mediation fails in Sally Rugg, Monique Ryan legal dispute. Lighter Footprints co-convenor, Lynn Frankes expressed disappointment in Mr Frydenbergs failure to attend without providing an explanation to us. Despite Mr Frydenbergs claims earlier in the week, Ms Frankes assured the audience that Lighter Footprints had no connection to the Labor, Greens or Independent campaigns. This statement received a hearty round of applause. Prime Minister Scott Morrison leapt on Professor Ryans former allegiance as proof positive that the independent Voices movement was instead a well-funded political party linked to Labor and the Greens. When introducing the girls, Lighter Footprints co-convenor, Mick Nolan quoted the School Strike for Climate website demanding that our politicians take our future seriously & treat climate change as what it is: a crisis., Both girls spoke about their love for the environment, their school programs and why they were involved in climate change action. Watch a shorter edited version of the event (1:11:45) on YouTube or the unedited event (1:32:32) on Facebook Live. He was twice awarded a Full Blue as a member of the Oxford tennis team. Please try again later. Peacock led the party into the 1984 election, reducing the Hawke governments majority. I'm not a career politician. The margin is slim and its winnable. Picture: Facebook Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching. Where, as a community, we provide the stepping stones for people to set their own directions. Menzies worked in opposition to reform the conservative forces, who suffered a massive defeat at the 1943 election. Not with their first preference of course that would be sacrilegious but simply by voting 1 for Labor and then putting the Liberal candidate anywhere ahead of a candidate who poses an even greater threat to the ALPs future. Australian Labor Party candidate for Kooyong https://www.peterlynch4kooyong.com.au/ peter.lynch@vic.alp.org.au Championing better standards of leadership and parliamentary representation. I stepped away from my former role as Director of Neurology at the Royal Childrens Hospital because I believed that our community deserved a local member who would represent their values in Canberra. The Holocaust is an event which should be a lesson to humans about humanity in dissent. Dr Peter Lynch has had a long medical career as a specialist physician, clinical director, public health official and health services board director. alongside the Liberal candidate for Aston, . Court documents in the legal fight over Dr Ryan's sacking of political staffer Sally Rugg reveal that in a meeting the MP said she held lofty ambitions. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. On an overcast Melbourne morning, Dr Monique Ryan launched her "Voices for" campaign in the seat of Kooyong held by the federal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg. She is contesting this election for the New Democrats. [6], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}374843S 1450340E / 37.812S 145.061E / -37.812; 145.061. Im not a career politician. The Liberal Party are defending two seats. With Hughes' resignation in 1923, Latham joined the governing Nationalist Party, and remained a member till his resignation from the seat and his elevation to the High Court. Incumbent MP Josh Frydenberg, since 2010. If they dont like the media attention they may do so at the general election. This Q&A section commences at approximately 00:46:00 in the Facebook Live recording. We dont fit into their frame where they mistake community concern for a political game.. The Labor Party is defending three seats, however MLC Kaushaliya Vaghela was disendorsed and later sat as an independent. It might help Votante. A post-election review by the Liberal Party has revealed what it believes were the main reasons behind the Coalitions heavy defeat in 2022. Latham went on to serve as Chief Justice of the High Court from 1935 to 1952. Post-Election Margin: Independent 2.9% v LIB. Mr Frydenberg holds Kooyong, which takes in the leafy Melbourne suburbs of Hawthorn and Kew, by about 6 per cent after suffering a swing against him of almost 8 per cent at the 2019 election. And down in [Mr Frydenbergs] electorate, and other places, I think this just exposes what this movement is all about, he said in Queensland on Tuesday. Kooyong is a blue-riband inner-Melbourne seat once held by former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, former Liberal leader Andrew Peacock and Petro Georgiou, who was an outspoken against his own Liberal government's treatment of asylum seekers during the Howard Government. All nations and all Chinese communities have a right to be justifiably scared of CCP operatives in Australia. Register, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. Adda The state seat extends beyond Hawthorn to include Camberwell and Surrey Hills but when it comes to Hawthorn its the area around Swinburne that is the Liberal Partys weakest area however they do better in other parts of Hawthorn. The real battle, Credlin wrote, was in the marginal outer-metropolitan and regional seats that largely determine who forms government. Kooyong candidate Dr Monique Ryan has apologised over a recently-resurfaced meme she shared in 2017 that trivialised Nazism. Labor candidate for Kooyong is medical physician and public health official, Peter Lynch. Professor Ryan said when she signed up as an ALP member before the 2007 election, she was concerned about climate change. Lib: 43,736 + 1,121 + 822 = 45,679 Ind: 41,303 + 4,484 + 548 = 46,335, 14,012 votes (Lab+Grn+AnJ) 3,426 votes (RW minors), LW pref flows: 8% Libs, 32% Ind, 60% exhausted RW pref flows: 24% Libs, 16% Ind, 60% exhausted Non-exhausted votes: 92,014, Ian I think you have overestimated the liberal minus 0.4%. In 1944 and 1945 he put together the new Liberal Party, which took over from the moribund United Australia Party and a number of splinter groups. Dr Ryan is deeply sorry to anyone who is offended by her misguided attempts at humour.. After school he deferred his university studies by a year to play tennis full time, competing in tournaments in Australia, Switzerland and Germany. The Liberal/National Coalition is defending one seat. Labor candidate Dr Lynch conceded that other parties could spruik more ambitious targets than his party but said the debate should also take into account the chances of being elected and therefore of the targets being implemented. Internal Liberal polling indicated the Kooyong MP's primary vote was about 50 per cent around October, before Dr Ryan's candidacy was announced. This, one would think, would be a positive for anyone genuinely concerned about climate change. These would-be saviours are the Labor burghers of Kooyong, a much marginalised minority group who have never before been in a position to make their vote count but they sure as hell are now. If the Liberals want to win Hawthorn Frydenberg is not their man. One of the few spare seats at the Hawthorn Town Hall last night was reserved for Mr Josh Frydenberg MP, the Member for Kooyong. The 454 candidates for the Legislative Council is the highest number of upper house candidates in a Victorian election, up from 380 in 2018.[1]. Booths have been divided into four areas: north-east, south-east, north-west and south-west. She's been forced to admit she'd been a Labor Party member for . Ashwood which includes , Glen Iris, Ashburton, Ashwood, Mount Waverley, Chadstone, and parts of Burwood. Prime Minister Scott Morrison campaigning in QueenslandCredit:James Brickwood. Apr 26, 2022 - 5.00am. Without moderate leadership, and without having to worry about any moderate urban seats that the teals have taken over, the Coalition would be free to pursue the sort of populist momentum that has been seized by One Nation and the United Australia Party. Menzies first term was rocky, with the Second World War being declared in September 1939. I am proud to have been selected by concerned members of the Kooyong community as their independent candidate for Federal Parliament., In a post on her website, Ms Ryan said she had also admired John Howards historic environmental conservation efforts and Renewable Energy Target.