A DATE has been set for the 2022 federal election.
Voters will head to the polls this year on 21 May. Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited the Governor-General on Sunday to call the election.
As of 11 April, seven candidates have nominated to run in the seat of Isaacs. The seat is currently held by Labor with a 6.5 per cent margin, and hasn’t been won by the Liberals since the 1993 election.
Incumbent Labor MP Mark Dreyfus is running again. He has been the member for Isaacs since 2007.
Former Bridge Hotel operator Robbie Beaton is the Liberal candidate. Alex Breskin, a software engineer, is running for The Greens.
The other candidates for Isaacs are Boris Sokiransky for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Scott McCamish for the United Australia Party, Sarah O’Donnell for the Liberal Democrats, and Alix Livingstone for the Animal Justice Party.
Mark Dreyfus easily retained the seat at the 2019 election after the Liberals disendorsed their own candidate during the middle of the campaign (“Dreyfus increases majority in Isaacs” The News 22/5/2019).
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 13 April 2022