Young Liberal Candidate Takes on Adam Bandt’s Fortress Melbourne on Cost of Living, Crime

Meanwhile, fellow candidate Simmone Cowan is in the western suburbs of Melbourne campaigning on mental health.

Liberal Party candidate for Melbourne, Steph Hunt. Courtesy of the Liberal Party.

While out campaigning and at listening posts, Steph Hunt says not an hour goes by without residents coming to her and describing their dissatisfaction at rising cost-of-living pressures.

It’s why at just 34, and the head of a legal practice, she put up her hand to run as a federal Liberal candidate for the progressive federal seat of Melbourne.