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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

‘It’s not 2018’: Matthew Guy learns to open up and unite his party

Victorian opposition leader Matthew Guy
Matthew Guy has been a fixture in Victorian politics for more than a decade but colleagues say voters are only now starting to see the real Matthew. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian

Sitting in the Victorian parliament, amid the rowdiness of question time, opposition leader Matthew Guy found himself distracted by events unfolding on the other side of the world.

Russia had just begun its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the 48-year-old’s phone was lighting up with messages from his second cousin, who lives near Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city.

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