- Amelia Hamer called herself a ‘renter’
- She owns property in London and Canberra
By HARRISON CHRISTIAN and MAX AITCHISON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Published: 08:25 BST, 7 April 2025 | Updated: 00:08 BST, 8 April 2025
A Liberal candidate who pitched herself to voters as a renter has been exposed as a landlord who owns two investment properties in London and Canberra.
Amelia Hamer, 31, standing in the teal-held seat of Kooyong in Victoria, was profiled in the Australian Financial Review last year as a ‘renter wanting to get into the housing market’.
Although Ms Hamer does rent in Hawthorn, she also owns an apartment in Canberra and a $1.46million flat in south-west London, according to property records seen by The Age.
‘While working in London and Canberra, I took out mortgages to buy the apartments that I lived in,’ Ms Hamer told Daily Mail Australia in response to questions.
‘Now that I’m back living in Melbourne, I am renting in Hawthorn.’
The Oxford-educated Ms Hamer lived in London between 2014 and 2020 while she worked for Bank of America and investment firm DST Global.
She also worked in Canberra as a policy adviser to then-cabinet minister Jane Hume between January 2021 and July 2022.
The race in Kooyong had already heated up before revelations of Ms Hamer’s property holdings, when the husband of teal incumbent Monique Ryan was filmed taking down one of Ms Hamer’s signs.
Amelia Hamer (pictured) was profiled in the Australian Financial Review last year as a ‘renter wanting to get into the housing market’
The Oxford-educated Ms Hamer (pictured) lived in London between 2014 and 2020 while she worked for Bank of America and investment firm DST Global
Liberal candidate Grange Chung (pictured centre) has made the cost of living crisis the keystone of his pitch to voters
Ms Hamer’s transformation from ‘renter’ to ‘landlord’ comes after Daily Mail Australia revealed another Liberal candidate campaigning on the cost of living and the housing crisis owned a luxury apartment in one of Japan’s best ski resorts.
Grange Chung, the Liberal candidate for the Sydney inner-city electorate of Reid, regularly shares earnest videos about how the Labor government is responsible for ‘the worst decline in (the) standard of living since 1959’.
‘I now own the home I bought here in the 90s as a junior officer,’ Mr Chung said in a press release announcing his candidacy.
‘It saddens me that young people don’t have the same opportunities to enter the housing market, which I had, when I was young.’
The Sydney-born electrical engineering graduate omitted to mention his 2016 purchase of an apartment in the luxury OneNozawa Residence building in Japan.
The property, which features just six apartments now costing around $2million each, sits over 700 metres above Nozawa Onsen village, the world-famous ski resort which hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Mr Chung and his wife Yoon were pictured clinking champagne glasses after they splashed out on an ‘genuinely amazing’ apartment in 2016, according to The Real Estate Conversation.
‘Each apartment is pure elegance; they are the highest residential ski apartments in Japan; they match their location with the world’s best quality windows and insulation,’ Mr Chung gushed at a ‘signing ceremony’.
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Liberal Party candidate Amelia Hamer’s investment portfolio revealed after claiming she was a renter