Gary Morgan brought his unique brand of political eccentricity to a breakfast for candidates for lord mayor of Melbourne at Crown on Wednesday, hosted by the Committee for Melbourne and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. “Team Morgan. You have got to vote for me this time.
It is the seventh time. I am not joking,” the impassioned pollster told those assembled to a smattering of chuckles. It was that kind of day.
Committee for Melbourne chief executive Scott Veenker watches as Lord Mayoral candidate Gary Morgan presents a family trophy to Victorian Chamber chief executive Paul Guerra. Credit: Jessica Hooper During his pitch he managed to traverse a wide archipelago: his relatives who were part of the Eureka Stockade; beating cancer thanks to his company Roy Morgan donating thousands of dollars to a Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre “molecular rare earths” drugs trial; founding the Committee for Melbourne with Hugh Morgan; before variously name-checking Joan Kirner , Bruno Grollo and Taylor Swift . But after this build-up he managed to misidentify rival mayoral candidate and councillor of Lebanese heritage Jamal Hakim , 40, as “ Kamahl ”.
Recalling the soothing Malaysian-born recording artist who was big on Hey Hey It’s Saturday and a one-time Dilmah Tea ambassador was not on our 2024 local government bingo card. Jamal Hakim Hakim, a Docklands resident who wants to create “experience improvement districts” in the city said he was “energised” by th.