“Physical attractiveness has been shown by extensive research to have a clear positive impact on electoral success,” Rodrigo Praino, professor of politics and public policy at Flinders University, told Deepcut.

“This is particularly true in the case of low information electoral contests, that is, when voters typically do not have very large amounts of information on the candidates, their policies and their records.”

I mentioned this to my partner, highlighting it as one of the less covered reasons I think the Secret Harbour election was lost so convincingly. The ON candidate doesn’t have the worst mug out there, added to this, I saw some very unfortunate photos of Georgia Tree.

In a possibly unfortunate turn of events for Herdegen, now he’s in office, it’s what’s on the inside that counts.