When the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) announced last Friday that the electorate of North Sydney, currently held by independent MP Kylea Tink, would be abolished, social media was awash with Hard Solo memes — a reference to Tink’s role in the push to prevent the alcoholic soft drink being sold under that name.
Hard Solo, it seemed, had taken its revenge.
Soft (or hard) drink jokes aside, Tink says she is “gutted” at Friday’s announcement, adding that her community is experiencing a “sense of grief” at being split in thirds. The former charity CEO was the first of 2022’s teal crop to announce
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