PAUL Matheson is happy to wear the underdog tag as he bids to become only the second Liberal MP to represent the state seat of Mildura.

Craig Bildstien, a former journalist at Sunraysia Daily, held the seat in the state’s north-west between 1988-96, the first and only Liberal MP for Mildura since the electorate was first proclaimed in 1927.

Earlier this month, when the TAB put up a market on t...