Exclusive: In two weeks, Doyle will face another fight when she tries to claw back the once-safe Liberal seat of Aston for the Labor Party.
“It felt like a little wooden bead under the skin,” Labor’s candidate for the Aston federal byelection toldLabor’s Aston candidate Mary Doyle campaigning in Boronia ahead of next month’s byelection.It was 1995 and, after a tough upbringing, Doyle’s life was starting to fall into place. Back in Australia, after her first overseas trip, she had recently become engaged to the “love of her life” and had just released a CD with her band.
Born in Echuca in 1970, Doyle was the youngest of nine children and was raised in public housing. She moved to Bendigo for secondary school and later followed her sisters to Melbourne’s outer east, finding work at Coles. Aston, which takes in the mortgage-belt suburbs of Wantirna, Bayswater, Boronia, Ferntree Gully, Rowville and Lysterfield, was created on the expansion of the parliament in 1984 and has been in Liberal hands since 1990.
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