After the state election, when the Liberal vote in Melbourne’s inner east collapsed, Higgins is no longer an afterthought, writes Gay Alcorn
Steve Stefanopoulos and his now husband, Craig, were on holiday in Vietnam when Malcolm Turnbull defeated Tony Abbott in the Liberal leadership spill in September 2015. The couple clinked champagne glasses over dinner in Ho Chi Minh city, toasting Turnbull’s ascension to prime minister.
“We saw him as a conservative progressive Australian leader,” says Stefanopoulos, 43, impossible to miss in a bright red jumper as he strolls by the upmarket cafes and galleries of High Street, Armadale, in Melbourne’s east. “Unfortunately, he got ousted … people are still upset about Malcolm not being in government and the way the whole thing happened.”
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