Labor candidate for Melbourne admits 'I look like a Green'

By Bianca Hall
Updated May 15 2015 - 12:24pm, first published 11:06am
Sophie Ismail, who is to take on the Greens' Adam Bandt in the battle for the federal seat of Melbourne. Photo: Luis Ascui
Sophie Ismail, who is to take on the Greens' Adam Bandt in the battle for the federal seat of Melbourne. Photo: Luis Ascui

She's a former migrant, a human rights and employment lawyer, and she's gay. On paper, the new candidate for Melbourne sounds like a Green out of central casting. But Sophie Ismail is central to Labor's plans to wrestle its erstwhile federal seat back from Adam Bandt​.

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