Liberal candidate for Kooyong, Amelia Hamer has been revealed to be the beneficiary of a $20 million dollar family trust fund.
A volunteer for Hamer’s rival candidate, Independent MP Monique Ryan, revealed the disclosing documents on social media yesterday afternoon.
The documents also revealed that Hamer, along with other family members, had received two payments from the fund in 2020 and 2021. The first payment being $60,000, the second an unidentified amount.
Last week, news reports revealed that Hamer had been positioning herself in some interviews as a renter, pledging to help Australians overcome the current cost-of-living crisis. While she is renting in Hawthorn, Hamer is actually the owner of two seperate properties, one in Canberra and one in London.
Hamer told residents “You can be both. You can be renting and also own a property”.
‘We also talk about the struggles of being a landlord in the state of Victoria’, she said.
Rival candidate Monique Ryan won the inner-east seat of Kooyong by a margin of 2.9 percent in 2022, beating out former Liberal treasurer, Josh Frydenburg. The seat had historically been Liberal since 1909.
Ryan has also recently been the source of controversy after her husband was filmed taking down an illegally placed Amelia Hamer sign. Ryan has since apologised, admitting the incident “should not have happened” and that “all concerns should have been made to the council”.
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