I’ve been watching the preselection for the Liberal candidate for Cook in the upcoming federal election with interest, as I tutored the winning candidate, Michael Towke, in mathematics at Sydney university about 5-6 years ago.
It’s interesting to see people you knew in the public eye.
July 21, 2007 at 5:22 am
Can you shed any insight into the name change? One of the odder things we’ve seen in Australian politics recently.
July 21, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Nothing more than anyone else could I imagine. I think he’s from a Christian Lebanese background, and perhaps he thought that having a surname of Taouk wouldn’t play well in the Sutherland Shire.
July 23, 2007 at 7:27 pm
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