Roshena Campbell

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Aston byelection: barrister Roshena Campbell selected as Liberal ... (The Guardian)

Melbourne city councillor beat rivals including a former Victoria state MP to take on first big test of the Dutton-led opposition.

There is a lot of cost of living pressure on those families in that local community, and I think people … [Melbourne](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/melbourne). “It was one of the government’s first decisions. [Liberal party](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/liberal-party) – for a female candidate to be selected in Aston”. [Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/29/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed) [email newsletters for your daily news roundup](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/29/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed) [called for a boost in women’s participation](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/20/liberal-party-review-of-election-loss-finds-50-of-candidates-and-new-mps-should-be-women).

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Liberals announce Roshena Campbell as candidate for Aston by ... (ABC News)

Roshena Campbell has been confirmed as the Liberal candidate for the forthcoming by-election in the marginal seat of Aston in Melbourne's outer east.

The Aston by-election was triggered by the City of Melbourne councillor Roshena Campbell has been confirmed as the Liberal candidate for the forthcoming by-election in the marginal seat of Aston. Liberals announce Roshena Campbell as candidate for Aston by-election

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Roshena Campbell has been chosen as the Liberal candidate in ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Liberal officials sped up the Aston preselection after the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Milton Dick, on Monday announced the by-election would ...

[Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter here](/link/follow-20170101-p5apym). Members aligned with church groups in the eastern part of the state previously helped de-select her as a candidate. Pesutto and Brighton MP James Newbury defended the call. Labor has not held it for 30 years, but the Liberals’ margin was cut from 10.1 per cent to 2.8 per cent at the May election. However, some feared she might not be well received in Aston because she did not live near the electorate. we’ll be in Aston tomorrow as we were last week and that engagement will continue - not just from me, but from our frontbench as well,” he said.

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Roshena Campbell named as Liberals candidate for Aston by-election (Sky News Australia)

Melbourne city councillor Roshena Campbell has been selected as the Liberal party's candidate for the Aston by-election following the departure of former ...

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Liberals choose Roshena Campbell as Aston by-election candidate (The New Daily)

Barrister and Melbourne City councillor Roshena Campbell has been chosen as the Liberal Party candidate for the marginal seat of Aston.

Having a rank-and-file ballot would have delayed the ability for the candidate to campaign against Labor’s pick, About half a dozen senior party figures, including Mr Dutton, voted on the selection in a secret ballot of the Victorian administrative committee in Melbourne on Tuesday night, The Age reported. Voters from the electorate in Melbourne’s outer east will head to the polls on April Fool’s Day to select their replacement for Mr Tudge.

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Roshena Campbell commits move to Aston (Sky News Australia)

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has revealed the Liberal candidate for the Aston by-election Roshena Campbell has committed to relocate into the electorate ...

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Awkward detail in fight for MP's seat (NEWS.com.au)

As the race to fill Alan Tudge's inner-city Melbourne seat heats up, both major parties risk losing favour, as neither of their candidates live in the ...

I think coupled with the fact that Roshena is an established advocate for people within this electorate stands her in good stead in terms of somebody who has the capacity to take the fight up on behalf of locals.” “I’m going to take the time to listen to them because they deserve a strong voice,” she said. “The Labor candidate doesn’t live in Aston, and the Labor candidate ran in the last election and has had all of that time to move into Aston and has made a decision not to,” Mr Dutton said.

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Liberals choose Roshena Campbell as Aston by-election candidate (The New Daily)

Barrister and Melbourne City councillor Roshena Campbell has been chosen as the Liberal Party candidate for the marginal seat of Aston.

Having a rank-and-file ballot would have delayed the ability for the candidate to campaign against Labor’s pick, About half a dozen senior party figures, including Mr Dutton, voted on the selection in a secret ballot of the Victorian administrative committee in Melbourne on Tuesday night, The Age reported. Voters from the electorate in Melbourne’s outer east will head to the polls on April Fool’s Day to select their replacement for Mr Tudge.

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Roshena Campbell named Liberal candidate for Aston (Ferntree Gully Star Mail)

Opposition leader Peter Dutton was in Wantirna South on Wednesday 22 February to announce the decision by the committee to name Ms Campbell the candidate for ...

Multiple sources said local Liberal members are “up in arms” and “ropeable” about the decision not to have a general plebiscite to decide a candidate, as originally planned. “It’s my job to be a champion for every voter in Aston, every family, every small business and I’m going to take the time to listen to them because they deserve a strong voice for the communities in Aston,” she said. She said as a barrister she has acted for small businesses in Aston when the stakes were high and “they wanted me to be their champion.”

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Battle for Aston: Roshena Campbell embodies Dutton's conservative ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The opposition leader's pick to contest the key Victorian seat padded up for her first press conference as the new federal Liberal candidate for Aston.

As it stands, only one of those parties, One Nation, is registered to contest the election. [but] she will still have to get the branch members on side.” More than 11 per cent of Aston voters supported the Liberal Democrats, United Australia Party or One Nation. The night before Wednesday morning’s press conference, Dutton voted for Campbell in a secret ballot (which she won by a big margin) of top Liberal officials. Anthony Albanese, she said, needed to “come clean” on how the Voice would look and operate. The Liberals who lost inner-city seats to teal MPs at the last election, including Josh Frydenberg, hope the party can soon be viewed as serious about climate change.

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