‘I’ll be the Jacqui Lambie of the left’: Dr Sarah Russell enters election race to replace Greg Hunt in Flinders

Dr Sarah Russell, who will run as an independent in the seat of Flinders at this year’s federal election, says she wants to play her part in defeating ‘the worst government we have had in my lifetime’. Photograph: Supplied

One of the most prominent critics of the Morrison government’s handling of Covid-19 outbreaks in aged care has entered the race to replace health minister Greg Hunt in the seat of Flinders.

Dr Sarah Russell, a public health researcher and the director of Aged Care Matters, was selected by the Voices of Mornington Peninsula group on Sunday evening to contest the Liberal-held seat at the May election.