Morsels from a wonderfully cooked election marketing campaign (half one)

Often when wanting again on the most pristine moments of weirdness of an election marketing campaign, you’d look to the minors, the amateurs and the no-hopers to get any good materials. Not this time. The 2022 Victorian election has given us sufficient bananas moments to fill two items, and the majors have delivered most of these.

That is a bit Richmond

Lauren O’Dwyer, Labor candidate for Richmond — a seat the ALP is battling to maintain out of the fingers of the Greens after the retirement of former housing and planning minister Richard Wynne — has described herself as “a proud Yorta Yorta girl”. One in every of her kinfolk, nevertheless, was much more modest concerning the household’s Indigenous heritage, insofar as they weren’t satisfied it existed. “I used to be actually stunned once I learn that on Fb that she was … a proud Yorta Yorta girl,” they mentioned.

Additional, she was allegedly not so proud that she had ever met with any Yorta Yorta elders. “I am not towards this girl per se, however it is extremely clear that she has no proper to acquire an identification as a Yorta Yorta with out going by way of the right channels and going to their elders,” mentioned Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Company chief government Monica Morgan. O’Dwyer has been steadfast: “I do know who I’m and am happy with my heritage.”