Contest for state’s most marginal seat of Frankston typifies an election where being tough on crime is seen as a vote winner
The bayside electorate of Frankston in the south-east of Melbourne is the most marginal in Victoria. It’s growing fast and changing rapidly but retains its image problem: too often a punchline for down-at-heel stereotypes and stubborn crime. By most analysis, if the Liberal party does not win Frankston, it will not win the election on 24 November.
The Liberal candidate, Michael Lamb, is running hard on one issue: law and order. The Liberal leader, Matthew Guy, says there’s been a “crime tsunami” under Daniel Andrews’ government. The shadow police minister, Ed O’Donohue, says the election well be a “referendum on who can fix violent crime in Victoria”.
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