Louise Stewart is going to come over the top of them all..... and very comfortably imo.
A wealthy Perth businesswoman says she will contest the safe Liberal seat of Curtin as a “socially progressive Liberal independent”, claiming her campaign has received a huge boost by the party’s decision to preselect conservative former university boss Celia Hammond.
Louise Stewart, 43, a lifelong Liberal voter, said yesterday she had lost faith in the party and believed she would win Curtin as an independent, promising to reveal her financial backers and formal policies later this week.
She said Curtin, in Perth’s wealthy western suburbs, was a progressive electorate in which more than 70 per cent of voters supported same-sex marriage in the 2017 postal survey. The Liberal Party’s choice of Ms Hammond on Sunday proved it was “stuck in the past”.