In the new episode of Who Doesn’t Love Politics? – the new podcast from your best friends here at GOAT – the Labor candidate for Wentworth threw some pretty deft shade over his Liberal challenger, Dave Sharma.
Sharma was chosen by the Wentworth branch on the basis of his impressive diplomatic career as Ambassador to Israel and advisor to then-foreign minister Alexander Downer, and despite PM Scott Morrison calling for a female candidate to run, and despite Sharma not living in the electorate.
And that’s a problem given the strong local credentials of local business owner and Tamarama Surf Lifesaving Club president Murray and the current frontrunner, independent MP Dr Kerryn Phelps, both of whom have long histories of service in the district.
Tim Murray and co-host Michelle Stephenson laugh about how APS is stuck in SA. YOU SHOULD SEE MY BACK YARD, JERKS.
And when co-host Michelle Stephenson asked how not being local was likely to play on the ground, Murray was quick to drop a little parochial-bomb on his rival.
“Well, he’s moved. And I’ve calculated that should he win he will have been in the electorate for thirty days before he moves to Canberra. So there’s on certainty: he won’t be representing us in Wentworth, he’ll be representing the Liberal Party in Canberra.”
The audio equipment in the WDLP? studio is very expensive, so he wasn’t permitted to do a mic drop at that point. But it was definitely implied.
You can hear the whole thing at Acast and iTunes, including dubious claims that Andrew P Street is the mayor of Adelaide* – and also a chat with Sally Rugg from Change.org about the people power triumph over the Opera House protest, and whether negative gearing can ever be sexy. Spoiler: it totally can be.
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*Well, yet. That day is going to come, obviously.