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Liberals have pre-selected Sandra Brewer of the Property Council as their candidate, pending approval. Safe seat, so unlikely to be in play, but what a kick in the guts to any renters living there.
I think voters here are going to be sceptical of an ex property council candidate standing for them as the Liberal candidate. Always been concerns over high density development in this seat. There is a Cott Independent group here that stand a strong chance if they pick the right candidate.
https://www.cottesloeindependent.com/
Independents in general will be a concern to the Liberals in the western suburbs of Perth.
Ideal for teal?
A teal wouldn’t win Cottesloe, but a community independent could per Malcolm.
@Malcolm I think it’ll be the same as NSW and Victoria, where the teams didn’t win any seats. They came second in Mornington in Melbourne (surprisingly, I suppose this is because of a campaign on local issues) and in a few Sydney seats but overall the Liberals still retained those seats, the only really close ones being Mornington in Melbourne and Pittwater in Sydney.
State Liberals are more moderate so the teal campaign is less relevant because in NSW both the Coalition and Labor support commonsense climate policies so you’ll notice that climate change hasn’t really been a big issue in NSW state elections. Same goes for the Tasmanian Liberals and Tasmanian Labor, they’ve both got commonsense climate policies so climate change isn’t an issue at Tasmanian state elections.
I think the Queensland LNP are starting to move to be more like their NSW counterparts by getting rid of a lot of the right-wing anti-abortion candidates and supporting more modern climate policies, whereas the federal Liberals are going backwards and supporting more right-wing policies (as were the SA Liberals under David Speirs who is now gone).
The federal seat of Curtin includes the bulk of this seat
Liberals shouldn’t lose it given they are in opposition and the federal seat of Curtin is also in play. However unlike Curtin this seat contains north fremantle
The Liberals really shouldn’t be losing Cottesloe given it was their only Perth holdout in the bloodbath that was 2021 but seem to be doing their best to do so given their choice of candidate.