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Taylor grew up there in Mullumbimby, a small hamlet in northern New South Wales, and a town she describes as “dirty hippie, no shoes, like antivax, organic food.”

Yet if his appearance has changed, his politics haven’t, because if Lalas once looked like a hippie, he never voted like one.

“I’m a hippie. I didn’t want to get the vaccine. I wanted to wait it out to see what the outcome was,” she said.

The liberal Bay Area city, known for its hippie counterculture, free speech and anti-war movements, helped shape Harris early on.

"When I was really little I remember friends being like, 'my mum says that we're not allowed to play with you because you're a hippie and you can't come round to our house'," she said.