IMRAN GASHKORI | Sport | Contact
Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor has today ventured deep into the new cosmopolitan heart of his rejigged electorate.
After years spent representing the lush paddocks and sheep stations of Boorowa, Yass and Young, where a man can confidently wear an faded Coopers Assassin cap to the pub without copping a second look, Taylor now finds himself rubbing shoulders with the rapidly expanding, multicultural heartlands of South-West Sydney.
Landing in Leppington this morning, Taylor fronted up to a group of Indian-Australian businessmen gathered outside a cafe, armed with a firm handshake, a starched check shirt, quarter zip jumper and the unwavering confidence of a man who’s not in it for the money.
“You blokes like cricket or?” he said.
Witnesses say the greeting was met with polite nods, like they were Year 8s greeting Angus as he came back to the boarding house.
Our reporter, embedded with the press pack for the day, observed a tense silence broken only by the distant hum of a concrete truck reversing into a subdivision.
Locals said the group, mostly engineers, IT consultants and small business owners who had just finished a breakfast seminar on commercial property financing, seemed unsure whether Taylor was asking for directions or trying to sell them something.
“All right boys, thanks for coming out. How about that 14-year-old in the IPL overnight? Makes Chris Gayle look like Ganguly, hey?”
“Wish he was from Leppington! Get him in the canary yellow, I say!”
They laughed.
“Haha thanks boys.”
More to come.
