Thirteen. That’s how many candidates will be on the Prahran ballot paper. Seven have been campaigning in earnest for weeks and months. They dutifully faced the voters at the TWiSK Prahran candidate forum on Sunday. Bravo to them!
At the forum were:
Angelica Di Camillo, Greens, Clayton Doueihi, Victorian Socialists, Meghan Hopper, Labor, George Leeton Watts, Community independent, Alan Menadue, Independent, Shaun Virsu, One Nation and Rachel Westaway, Liberal MP
Enter the gags and red flags
The last-minute nominations, just 18 days before polling day, have more mysteries than an Agatha Christie novel.
Former ABC election guru Antony Green was quick to smell a dead rodent in the pack, writing on his blog that the pattern of nominations in Prahran “appears to me a case of nominating candidates to try and disadvantage the Greens.” (Source)
Top of the red-flag list is Free Palestine – registered by Avraham Yemini at 8/220 Collins Street, Melbourne.
Next is Safety Victoria – Violent Crime Prevention – registered by Morgan Jonas at 8/220 Collins Street, Melbourne.
Then comes Climate Action Now – registered by Monica Smit at 4/16–18 Beenleigh Redland Bay Road, Loganholme, QLD.
Campaign boost for Max D**ks,
thanks to ABC TV
Meanwhile, in the spirit of the former S*x Party, local locksmith Max Dicks has thrown his hat in the ring following his high-profile but unsuccessful Senate bid in 2022.
In latter-day Benny Hill style, Charlie Pickering’s The Weekly devoted a whole program to Max and his member, awarding him the coveted Ricky Muir Award.
As Max says in his candidate statement on TWiSK: Why vote for me? It’s in your hands
Apparently, you can’t keep a good Dick down.
Watch Max’s video, courtesy of the ABC.
Final ballot order
FINNIGAN, Tosh-Jake
O’NEILL, G. Daniel, Animal Justice Party
LEETON WATTS, George
WESTAWAY, Rachel, Liberal
MENADUE, Alan
WONG, Nicholas, Climate Action Now
JONES, Daniel, Free Palestine
DICKS, Max
DOUEIHI, Clayton, Victorian Socialists
JONAS, Morgan, Safety Victoria – Violent Crime Prevention
VIRSU, Shaun, One Nation Victoria
HOPPER, Meghan, Australian Labor Party
DI CAMILLO, Angelica, The Greens
