{"id":303018,"date":"2025-11-23T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303018\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:54:08","slug":"former-federal-liberal-candidate-amelia-hamer-wins-preselection-for-state-seat-of-malvern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303018\/","title":{"rendered":"Former federal Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer wins preselection for state seat of Malvern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former federal Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer has won preselection to contest the state seat of Malvern, in Melbourne’s inner east, at next year’s Victorian election.<\/p>\n

Ms Hamer was endorsed at a party meeting on Sunday, after former opposition leader Michael O’Brien announced he would not contest the next election.<\/p>\n

“Hamer joins Jess Wilson\u2019s next-generation Liberal team as the first candidate selected for the upcoming Victorian election in 2026,” the opposition said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\"Amelia<\/p>\n

Ahead of her endorsement, the Liberal Party released an image of Amelia Hamer walking with newly elected leader Jess Wilson.\u00a0 (Supplied: Liberal Party)<\/p>\n

Ms Hamer unsuccessfully ran for the federal seat of Kooyong<\/a> at this year’s election, losing narrowly to teal MP Monique Ryan.<\/p>\n

During her campaign, Ms Hamer received criticism for pitching herself as a renter, despite owning two investment properties.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The electorate covers more than 20 square kilometres and includes the affluent suburbs of Toorak, Armadale, Kooyong, Malvern, Malvern East and parts of Glen Iris.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It has been a safe Liberal seat since it was first contested at the 1945 election.<\/p>\n

Ms Hamer grew up in the suburb of Malvern, where she also went to school and continues to live.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a statement, the Liberal Party said Ms Hamer’s priority for the upcoming election was “to end Labor’s era of waste and financial mismanagement, bring business back to Victoria and to restore quality of life in the Malvern community”.<\/p>\n

“Locals are fed up with rising crime, rising cost of living and a government that is tired and completely out of touch,” Ms Hamer said.<\/p>\n

“We will tackle crime, ease cost of living pressures and make it easier to do business here again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former federal Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer has won preselection to contest the state seat of Malvern, in Melbourne’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[172959,64,63,127355,10940,172958,172960,44,9804],"class_list":{"0":"post-303018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-amelia-hamer","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-jess-wilson","12":"tag-liberal-party","13":"tag-malvern","14":"tag-michael-obrien","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-state-election"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}