Amelia Hamer, the 31-year-old Oxford educated grand-niece of former Victorian premier Sir Rupert “Dick” Hamer, has won preselection to become the Liberal Party’s candidate for Josh Frydenberg’s former seat of Kooyong.
Local surgeon Susan Morris, who had the backing of former prime minister Tony Abbott, and barrister Michael Flynn KC, were also in the race.The Liberal Party regards the once-safe seat of Kooyong – centred on the Melbourne suburbs of Hawthorn and Kew – as a target seat at the next election after Frydenberg suffered a 6.5 per cent fall in his primary vote.
In a letter of support for Morris, Tony Abbott said the party needs “more capable candidates who happen to be women”, given the need to be “broadly representative of the wider community”. Pattison, 56, who is director of an asset management and corporate finance firm, had strong support from senior Liberal Party figures, including senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs John Roskam, former Victorian opposition leader Michael O’Brien as well as Marg Hawker, the chair of the Liberal Women’s Council.
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