{"id":644371,"date":"2026-05-02T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644371\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:40:10","slug":"darren-hercus-anthony-marsh-tracee-hutchison-among-candidates-on-mornington-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644371\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Hercus, Anthony Marsh, Tracee Hutchison among candidates on Mornington Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Sam Groth is absent from the booths today, many of his former Liberal colleagues have made the trip to Nepean to support their candidate, Anthony Marsh.<\/p>\n<p>Among them are party leader Jess Wilson, deputy David Southwick, opposition education spokesperson Brad Rowswell and MP Moira Deeming, who last month gained preselection as the party\u2019s lead candidate for the Western Metropolitan Region in the upper house. The group recently took a \u201cfamily photo\u201d outside the Rosebud Sea Scouts Hall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former opposition leader Brad Battin (left), Opposition Leader Jess Wilson and Liberal candidate Anthony Marsh.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/41a4047ab6625826518242a0cf6973355be00649.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Former opposition leader Brad Battin (left), Opposition Leader Jess Wilson and Liberal candidate Anthony Marsh.Wayne Taylor<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said her party was not taking the seat, which has been occupied by the Liberals for 36 of the past 40 years, for granted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why Anthony\u2019s been down here for weeks on end, and I\u2019ve been with him knocking on doors,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been out listening to the community, and we\u2019ve put forward a really positive plan for the electorate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said voters felt neglected by Labor and that this was evidenced by the party\u2019s decision to not stand a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat just shows how much they don\u2019t care about the people on the peninsula,\u201d she said. \u201cBut me, as a future premier of Victoria, I will make sure that they get the investment down here that they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Sam Groth is absent from the booths today, many of his former Liberal colleagues have made the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-644371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644371","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=644371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}