The Liberals’ 36-year-old, first-time MP leader has left herself open to Labor attacks that she can’t stand the heat.
Senior Victorian Liberals are beginning to worry less about whether Coalition leader Jess Wilson can actually win this month’s state election , and more about what she will do if she does.
As one senior Liberal powerbroker privately put it at the Melbourne Cup Carnival: “She’s running dead. A small-target strategy where you try not to offend anyone, like [Ted] Baillieu did in 2010.
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Take a virtual walk through a future vision of Kew Junction, the centre of a high-stakes political battle in Opposition Leader Jess Wilson’s seat.
The opposition leader also said on Sunday that a Coalition government would introduce “move on” laws and require protesters to obtain permits to hold demonstrations.
