Former MP Tim Wilson has won preselection to become the Liberal party candidate in his former seat of Goldstein, setting up a rematch with “teal” independent Zoe Daniel.
Wilson, who held the seat in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs between 2016 and 2022, won a vote of Liberal party members on Sunday afternoon, sources said.
He was one of six MPs to lose once-safe Liberal seats to progressive independents at the 2022 election and is the only one so far to put his hand up to contest his former seat at the next poll, due by the middle of 2025.
Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg, who lost the nearby seat of Kooyong to independent Monique Ryan, has instead pursued a corporate career, chairing investment bank Goldman Sachs’ Australian and New Zealand operation.
On Saturday, Amelia Hamer was preselected to become the Liberal party’s Kooyong candidate. The 31-year-old is an executive at a fintech company and the grand-niece of former Victorian premier Rupert “Dick” Hamer.
Daniel, a former ABC journalist, holds Goldstein on a 2.9% margin. She won in 2022 with a primary vote of 34.5 %, while Wilson’s primary vote dropped by more than 12%.
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