Kooyong: climate change shakes up the election in Liberal Melbourne

Labor, the Greens and an independent plan to give Josh Frydenberg a run for his money in the blue-ribbon seat of Robert Menzies

Twelve months ago, an election defeat for the Liberal party in Kooyong, a leafy patch of Melbourne’s eastern suburbs that abounds in top-ranked private schools and expensive real estate, would have been unthinkable.

The phrase “Liberal heartland” gets thrown around a lot but in Kooyong it’s no exaggeration. This is the seat of Sir Robert Menzies. It has never been out of Liberal hands.

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