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ā„¹ #Flinders factcheck day

There has been faux topics about Despi O'Connor shared over the few weeks.
ā“ "Despi has Withdrawn"
āŒ Incorrect

āœ… Facts: Despi is a Candidate in the race for #FlindersVotes, with lots of support. The #TeamDespi vibe is positive!
#ausvotes #auspol Image
#FlindersVotes factcheck
ā“ "Despi is splitting the independent vote"
āŒ Incorrect.

āœ… Facts
10 candidates
Every vote matters
1st of 10 candidates to declare for #ausvotes
Campaigns daily for 6mths
Works tirelessly amongst her community, today and as a #Volunteers, over 15yrs šŸ‘‰šŸ¼ Image
#FlindersVotes factcheck
ā“ "Despi is ineligible to campaign for #Flinders"
āŒ Incorrect

āœ… Facts
Despi has resigned as a state primary school Teacher
On leave without pay for 18mths (no benefits).
If she had worked in private education (system) that would have been NO issue. Image
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3. Good start for the sitting LNP MP in @the_chronicle_ exit poll on day 1 of #GroomVotes pre-polling. Please follow @GillespieTom17, whoā€™s on the ground for the Toowoomba daily.

@SuzieHolt4Groom is third after Labor.
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Here comes @SuzieHolt4Groom!

An explosive report in Toowoombaā€™s @the_chronicle resets the #GroomVotes campaign, suggesting a big chunk of LNP and Labor voters have switched their support to her.

Will Garth Hamilton still boycott tonightā€™s candidates forum in Highfield?
3. #GroomVotes voters, you can question @SuzieHolt4Groom at tonightā€™s Toowoomba Busienss Network candidates forum. The sitting LNP has refused to attend - his one and only candidates forum was last night.

#IndependentsDay
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ā€˜Liberalā€™ Party becoming the US Republican Party before our eyes. Ugly culture wars, glorifying guns, policies for sale to big donors, public service destruction, corrupt govt appointments, the lot.

True liberal voters need to take a stand now to save our faltering democracy.
2. The host of this gun-toting fundraiser for the ā€˜Liberalā€™ Party? The biggest supplier of guns etc to OUR Defence Force! Enough merging guardians of the public interest with private profit. Time to stop rampant Canberra corruption in Canberra! Vote to save decent democracy.
3. The proof: What a pleasure it must be for a huge Defence Force supplier - OUR defence force - to host a $5,000 a head gun-toting ā€˜Liberalā€™ Party fundraiser. This Govt sells its soul and our democracy very cheap.

We gotta cleanse corruption in Canberra FAST.
#IndependentsDay
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1. Damien Hodgkinson is sole shareholder & a director of @Climate200. He profited last election by doing the donation books of several independents - $30k a pop. inc @zalisteggal. Charged $30k a pop.

Then went big, still on the @Climate200 Board, seeing ā€˜a gap in the marketā€™.
2. @climate200 denies conflict of interest in Hodgkinsonā€™s lucrative double play.

Arenā€™t #IndependentsDay campaigns about local capacity building? INDEPENDENCE from donors? No local would do it for free or lower cost?

@climate200 enriching mates?

smh.com.au/national/nsw/tā€¦
3. I worked with Simon on @NoFibsā€™ 2010 #IndependentsDay campaign & he donated to my crowdfund. I knew @climate200 donated to 3 candidates we backed, none on the storyā€™s list.

I had no inkling @climate200 people were profiting from candidates. ZERO.

amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/tā€¦
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1. For those wondering what the ā€˜Voices forā€™ movement is hereā€™s a deeply researched essay by #BoothbyVotes independent candidate @instanterudite. Iā€™m not a source :)

#IndependentsDay
2. My @SaturdayPaper take on the ā€˜Voices forā€™ movement and itā€™s relationship with @Climate200.

#IndependentsDay

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/ā€¦
3. The finale of the @adropex series on the birth & evolution of the ā€˜Voices forā€™ movementā€™s discusses its core #newpower values and how some of the groups founders are mentoring new groups and their experiments in structure.

#IndependentsDay

nofibs.com.au/series-finale-ā€¦
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1. An Australian second wave feminist icon, @takingalongview, with the perfect and timely title for her memoire.

Wendy has endorsed @spenderallegra for #WentworthVotes

personal threadā€¦
2. I met Wendy as a university student when I was Quentin Bryceā€™s children-sitter. Quentin was Qldā€™s Rep on Malcolm Fraserā€™s National Womenā€™s Advisory Council and Wendy repā€™d NSW. Dame Beryl Beaurepaire chaired the Council.

womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0019bā€¦
3. The next time I saw Wendy was at the @drkerrynphelpsā€™ by-election night party on October 20, 2018. Wendy chaired Kerrynā€™s campaign for #WentworthVotes.
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ANOTHER opportunity for #IndependentsDay candidates to put serious donation disclosure reform on the #ausvotes agenda.

Indies completely justified in operating under current law, otherwise they give Govt MPs an unfair & crippling advantage.

Will the Govt pledge reform too?
2. Maybe an #IndependentsDay candidate or two might ask the sitting MP to agree that both fully disclose donations in real time from the hand shake. Wouldnā€™t that be interesting :)
3. WILD: @JasonFalinskiMP says Labor must put all #IndependentsDay candidates LAST because @zalisteggall amended her donation return.

Jason, whatā€™s your #ausvotes #HonestPolitics plan? Debate it with @SophieScamps in #MackellarVotes?

Do you back Zaliā€™sā€™ PolAdsTruth bill?
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1. @SenatorRennick not up for re-election. LNP chose him, a stain on the Party & more proof it swung hard fundamentalist right since the merger &ā€™crushed its liberal wing.

Ground zero for liberalismā€™s fightback is @SuzieHolt4Groomā€™s #IndependentsDay campaign at #GroomVotes
2. LNP now expects liberals to vote for Canavan, 2 on Senate ticket - despite his pledge to do everything he can to oppose net zero by 2050.

Canavan - a mate of LNP MP, is central to the push to convert #GroomVotes from a Liberal MP in Canberra to Nats.

My @SatPaper report:- ImageImage
3. No surprise the that Canavan leads a smear campaign on @SuzieHolt4Groom kicked off by a @couriermail hit. The LNP MP says nothing.

Your move, Ms Holt.

#GroomVotes #IndependentsDay
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Excellent backstory to the PMā€™s startling change of legislative policy on gay students by @LisaVisentin.

Iā€™d add the PMā€™s pledge during the #WentworthVotes by election in Oct 2018 to URGENTLY ban private schools expelling students for being gay.
2. And hereā€™s the blow-back to the PMā€™s startling apparent change of heart, reversing his veto on banning private schools expelling gay students in his Religious Discrim Bill.

3. During the #WentworthVotes by election Morrison first backed the right private schools to sack gay students then said he didnā€™t like it then pledged to repeal the law allowing it urgently. By @Paul_Karp

#IndependentsDay

theguardian.com/australia-newsā€¦
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ā€˜Voices forā€™ community #IndependentsDay candidate launch thread-

Goodbye #HumeVotes hello #HughesVotes, where the local ā€˜Voices forā€™ group @HumansOfHughes will announce its community #IndependentsDay candidate.

Launch by sausage sizzle - love it!
2. The @HumansOfHughes community #IndependentsDay launch is at the Bonnet Bay football club on the Waronora River. And who do I see? @lindadoherty21 & I were on the @smh 2001 #ausvotes team; she now freelances for @CroakeyNews, run by former @smh health reporter @MelissaSweetDr
3. Theyā€™re lining up for the announcement of the @HumansofHughes community #IndependentsDay candidate plus sausage sizzle.

#HughesVotes
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#IndependentsDay candidate for #HumeVotes launch day thread.

Breakfast at the Paragon Cafe, 1940 Art Deco spectacular, in Goulburnā€™s Main Street with @dginnivan before the launch of the @of_hume community independent candidate. Photo by our waitress Delia Lang.
Goulburn Showgrounds, the Veolia Arena, cold, windy, rain spits, the @of_hume community #IndependentsDay candidate at the entrance shaking hands. Crowd growing.

#HUMEVOTES
3. ā€˜Uch ā€™ Perazza drove from Razorback near Picton to Goulburn for the launch of the @of_hume community #Independentsday candidate.

ā€œAfter 9 years of nothing from the Liberal Party for Hume we need someone who can instigate change for the better.ā€

#HumeVotes
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731. Extraordinary stuff from Frydenberg, triumphalist Back in Black back boaster before last #ausvotes. SURELY with a record breaking deficit and covid widening income inequality the sane thing to do is delay or abolish the stage 3 tax cuts. Nope - letā€™s cut tax more!
732. B McKenzie demands the Clean Energy Finance Corporation finance carbon capture & storage research (a fantasy) to sustain coal mining. The mining industry hasnā€™t done it because it canā€™t be done. This is AWFUL, & she confirms thereā€™s STILL no bloody plan!
#IndependentsDay!
733. The fix is in. If carbon capture and storage was viable big fossil fuel companies would have found a way by now. Yet to pretend to act on climate change the Govt INCREASES taxpayer already massive subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

#IndependentsDay
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415. Frydenburg gave $25 billion to companies who made false projections of revenue fall to get Jobkeeper & didnā€™t require make they repay money not needed. $9 billion to companies who PROFITED. He must resign or get the money back.

#independentsday
afr.com/rear-window/joā€¦
417. Funded by Clive Palmer, Craig Kelly is already spamming in #HughesVotes. And beyond?

@HumansOfHughes in the process of choosing an #IndependentsDay community candidate.
418. Iā€™m in safe Nats seat of Lyne, so I guess Craig Kellyā€™s new benefactor Clive Palmer is spreading the UAPā€™s net wide.

Iā€™d like spam from political parties banned pronto.

Will Coalition again preference the UAP - even defector Craig Kelly - despite itā€™s anti-vax misinfo? ImageImage
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šŸ“¢ itā€™s time to share a *big* project iā€™ve been working on.

ā€¦and ask for *your* support. šŸ™

#Climate200 is aimed squarely at restoring integrity to politics and delivering the climate action that australians want. šŸ§µ

climate200.com.au #auspol #ausvotes #independentsday
firstly, on climateā€¦

the closer we get to november's #cop26 climate conference in #glasgow, where most nations will outline their stepped up net-zero COā‚‚ plansā€¦

ā€¦the clearer it becomes that @ScottMorrisonMP will not ā€” cannot ā€” take the climate action most australians want.
the recent IPCC report issued a 'code red' climate warning.

for many the main message isn't new, but a potent reminder that our gov't is in deep denial.

morrisonā€™s response to the report was to blame china, to deflect attention from australiaā€™s lost decade of climate inaction.
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Thread: @PhillipCoorey is digging himself a hole by attacking women in an attempt to save Scott Morrison. #ChristianPorter #auspol #March4Justice #WomenForElection #GettingElected #IWD2021

afr.com/politics/federā€¦
He says:

ā€œInternal research showed that swing voters soon tired of the Higgins story....After a few days, it morphed into frustration that Higgins had yet to go to the police.ā€
Was any ā€œinternal researchā€ conducted into why rape victims donā€™t go to the police? What action have the police actually taken in relation to Higgins? Has the man been interviewed or charged? Is he even still in Australia? The public are currently in the dark on these questions.
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8. Searingly honest and revelatory account of the a good journalistā€™s internal voices on a story like this, and the external constraints on publication. I RELATED BIG TIME.

Superb, Tory. I would have made the same decision as you for the same reason, until sheā€™ ready let it be.
9. Succinct summary of investigation state of play by @osbornep

10. Backgrounder thread by @CroweDM on the NSW Police statement closing its investigation.
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@DaveSharma misses the point. The entire world has just witnessed a shocking attack on #democracy. All the #freespeech noise is deflecting focus from the far more important discussion about the staging of a violent coup by the #POTUS #auspol
smh.com.au/national/twittā€¦
Trump has not been stripped of his political voice or silenced. He has access to a press agency and the worldā€™s media. He has fallen into his own trap. By dismissing traditional media outlets as ā€œfake newsā€ he has voluntarily limited his own options.
In Australia, with an election possibly on the horizon and growing evidence of a threat from far-right extremist groups, what is needed is calm, objective and clear leadership. We need swift and decisive condemnation of the violent attack and of the #POTUS for inciting it.
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The biggest crisis for our nation since WW11, the deepest slump since the Depression, and Parliament shuts down. SCARY for democracy, scary for the people. #coronacrisis
2. Congratulations to @vanOnselenP at Ten News for reporting to concerns with Democracyā€™s shutdown in Canberra. #coronavirusworld

https://t.co/G3lx35I4G7
3. #ScottyfromMarketing shut down the peopleā€™s voice - OUR Parliament - to take undemocratic advantage of #coronavirusworld.

New Zealand, yet again, shows us how a well-led Government in a democracy handles an existential threat.

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1. Good one, Malcolm - how about indies, Labor, Greens propose NEG law, dare emasculated moderate Libs in safe seats to cross floor or face massive #independentsday campaigns to replace them.

@zalisteggall @helenhainesindi @MakeMayoMatter @WilkieMP

#independentsday
2. I suggested a cross political project to agree on basics, begin presenting pu up agreed climate change to Parliament.

nofibs.com.au/lets-get-togetā€¦
3. @zalisteggall, who #WarringahVotes sent to Parliament replace climate change denier and policy destroyer Abbott, is taking the lead.

#independentsday

google.com.au/amp/s/amp.thegā€¦
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1. How about hitting me with other examples of the Lbs or Nats dumping their own brands on their posters!

2. No Liberal Party branding for the Lib MP at #CorangamiteVotes.

Any more examples?

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Huh? I deliberately did NOT Retweet the @AngusTaylorMP allegation thread because the allegations were unsourced. Whatā€™s going on, Angus?
2. Hereā€™s the full letter from @AngusTaylorMP lawyers sent to @NoFibs which falsely claimed I tweeted a thread on allegations against him.
3. Wondering if a lawyer Tweep would agree to act for me pro bono to sort out this mess? I believe I did not Tweet or RT the thread in question.
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VISION! Nation Building. Fairness. Compassion. Ambition to lead on Climate Change. Committment to bigger surpluses.

Shortenā€™s best ever speech.

Let the Morrison fear mongering begin. I believe Australians wonā€™t listen.

Weā€™re ready to lift our eyes again.

#ausvotes
2. Cormann pitch, sweating, frenetic (!) - Labor has no plan for a strong economy! BULLSHIT: New industries, new construction, new skills, new infrastructure.

LOGIC: The Govt prefers tax rorts for the well off to better health, education, skills & the environment for all
3. Kroger & co in knots on Sky: Labor will wreck the budget bottom line PLUS Labor plans big new taxes.

They cannot have it both ways. They will try. God they will try.
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