[2] The district is characterised by the southern banks of the Yarra River, rolling hills, lush greenery, and pockets of bushland.

Smith would continue to keep Warrandyte as a safe Liberal seat barring the 2018 and 2022 elections where it became marginal following the successes of the Australian Labor Party.

He said that he had “become increasingly uncomfortable with the growing negative tone of politics, both internally and more broadly,” generally interpreted as Smith’s disquiet over Pesutto’s handling of the Moira Deeming-related leadership tensions that embroiled the Victorian Liberal Party in early and mid-2023.

[21] She has previously run in the Aston federal by-election where she received 7% of the primary vote [22] and as a candidate for the LDP in Jagajaga and the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region in 2022.

[6] Family First Party candidate Richard Griffith-Jones has promised to introduce if elected legislation to ban drag queen storytime in public venues.