Tracee Hutchison will not run in Victoria’s state election in November, despite winning almost a quarter of first preferences at the by-election in May, citing rising violence towards women. Speaking to AAP, Hutchison shared her distress for Helen Haines and also recalled her personal experience of “a sustained, organised harassment and bullying campaign”. The verbal harassment I experienced, and that the women my team did, was unlike anything I had anticipated.
Hutchison said she reported threats and feeling unsafe to the Victorian Electoral Commission every day during pre-polling. There is no framework for the officers to do anything other than come out to the polling booth and tell everyone to behave. They then go back inside and people kick off again.
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