The Wentworth Liberal Who Went Rogue

There was not a great deal of wit displayed in the 2022 Federal election campaign, with the possible exception of Pauline Hanson’s cartoon series, which had its moments. One laugh-out-loud moment, though, came in a video from Wentworth Liberal Democrat candidate Daniel Lewkovitz, who interrogated a bunch of young participants in the School Strike 4 Climate held in May, while then pursuing his campaign against the Snugglepot and Cuddlepie of climate catastrophists, Allegra Spender and Dave Sharma.

Enjoying a teacher-sanctioned day off school, the uniformed and excitable kids milled around Sydney Town Hall with placards declaring “You’ll Die of Old Age. I’ll Die of Climate Change.” “Our future is In Your Hands” and “Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie!”. Lewkovitz was there and queried a bunch of kids about their voting intentions, to which they all responded “Greens”, naturally. He then asked one particularly animated youngster about his favourite subject, to which…