Victoria’s Opposition has been hit with two scandals caused by its senior members on the same day, raising concerns about cultural issues within the party. Shadow treasurer David Davis was escorted out of a multicultural gala dinner for getting drunk and misbehaving, while Liberal MP Wendy Lovell has been subject to harsh criticism for her comments on social housing. Lovell, who was the housing minister under the Liberal government until 2014, remarked during a debate on the Greens party’s homelessness bill in the upper house on March 23 that it was pointless to erect social housing in well-off suburbs. “There is no point putting a very low income, probably welfare-dependent family in the best street in Brighton where the children cannot mix with others or go to the school with other children or where they do not have the same ability to have the latest in sneakers and iPhones etc.,” …
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