‘It’s not tokenism’: why these young candidates are contesting the Victorian election

When News Corp’s Herald Sun announced Georgie Purcell was running for Victorian parliament, the image accompanying the story was her pole dancing in a black leotard, her colourful tattoos on show.It is not uncommon for a tabloid to dredge up a young candidate’s social media posts. But in this instance, the Animal Justice party candidate submitted the images herself.

Some of the youngest candidates contesting Victoria’s election are Georgie Purcell, Nicole Werner, Jacqui Hawkins, Lucy Skelton, Marley McRae McLeod, Kate Lardner, Meg Watkins and Angelica Panopoulos.– which has no gender quotas – there have been internal calls to ensure women are preselected to contest winnable seats. In 2016, the opposition leader, Matthew Guy, said he wanted almost 50% of Liberal MPs to be women by 2022.

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Why did you ignore the young people in VictorianSocialists (vic_socialists)? Does the word SOCIALIST scare you SpringSt AUSPOL VicSocialists Socialism VoteLEFT

It's exactly that.

It's funny how it's called tokenism when it goes against the old guard & threatens their power but then called new blood when it's not threatening 2 the old guard. auspol springst

georgievpurcell Good luck Georgie 🗳️1 🤞

No coverage of younger candidates in vic_socialists, ?

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