Thread by @margokingston1

#IndependentsDay candidate for #HumeVotes launch day thread.

Breakfast at the Paragon Cafe, 1940 Art Deco spectacular, in Goulburn’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. ‘Uch ’ Perazza drove from Razorback near Picton to Goulburn for the launch of the @of_hume community #Independentsday candidate.

“After 9 years of nothing from the Liberal Party for Hume we need someone who can instigate change for the better.”

#HumeVotes

4. I meet @NoFibs #IndependentsDay candidate for #HumeVotes in 2019, Mr Huw Kingston - @Huw4Hume!

He sowed the seeds for change here with a wonderful pop-up campaign.

“If it was important in 2019 for people to stand up for climate change & integrity it’s essential in 2022.”

5. @julia_zemiro, a #HumeVotes resident who will host the @of_hume community #IndependentsDay candidate launch, tells the 250+ crowd it’s a few minutes to showtime.

#IndependentsDay

6. @Indigocathy chatting with attendees pre-launch of the 3rd ‘Voices for’ community #IndependentsDay candidate, in Federation seat #HumeVotes. So good that 2 of the first 3 are from regional Australia!

@KyleaTink #NorthSydneyVotes
@SuzieHolt4Groom #GroomVotes

7. @julia_zemiro says the #IndependentsDay movement ‘is the community coming together and realising that they have a voice and they need to use it now.’

#HumeVotes

8. Founder of Hume’s ‘Voices for’ community group @of_hume Matt Murfitt, says he was informed by #WarringahVotes and #IndiVotes models. The candidate involved early, set up Kitchen Table Conversations at the Goulburn markets.

#HumeVotes

9. Please follow @PennyAckery, the ‘Voices for’ #IndependentsDay candidate for #HumeVotes. Huge seat, she asks who’s from Bundanoon, Maryland, so many little towns. A few missing - Penny says we need to work at that.

“This is about rekindling our democracy.”

10. @pennyackery: Accountability of our MPs very important to #HumeVotes & a Federal Integrity Commission crucial - big applause. She acknowledges @indigocathy, who introduced FIC bill before she retired in 2019 and handed the matter to @helenhainesindi.

@of_hume @VoteAngusOut

11. Never seen this before - #HumeVotes is a campaign of many colours :) Take your pick, it seems - I went for purple.

@PennyAckery

#IndependentsDay

12. The audience at #HumeVotes is spellbound as @Indigocathy lays down the philosophy of community #IndependentsDay candidates and how it can Hume’s status as a ‘rusted-on” regional seat. And the MAGIC of being on the cross bench to make Govt BETTER.

13. @indigocathy: @pennyackery needs 25,000 people to shift to her - 1 in 4 - up to Penny’s SUPPORTERS to do it. The IGNORED voters are under 25s - please hear them and let them know Penny can be thei t voice if they turn up. Please INVITE them in.

#HumeVotes #IndependentsDay

14. Gee it’s nice meeting Tweeps you’ve known for ages but never seen. Hello
@SandraEckersley, who’s visiting from the South Coast to lend her support to #IndependentsDay “because it is the only community voice now and independents will play a key role in the next Govt.”

15. Virginia King, Crookwell, a @of_hume KTC facilitator, toasts #HumeVotes’ candidate @PennyAckery.

She’ll do fliers, stickers, T-shirts, polling booths. Why?

“We’re heading down the Trump route. I want Govt integrity & action on climate for my grandchildren’s future.”

16. Can’t believe that @simonahac & have never actually met! He was in the audience for the launch of the @of_hume choice for community #IndependentsDay candidate @PennyAckery due to being in the area collecting his daughter.

#HumeVotes

17. @gill_betty & @Agent8610 drove up from Camden in the northern end of #HumeVotes and will rev interest up there for @pennyackerly.

Max: “I’m worried about the place we live in & I’m over the lying by Morrison and Taylor. We need standards again.”

#IndependentsDay

18. The @jamesmassola interview with @PennyAckery for the @smh.

#HumeVotes #IndependentsDay

https://twitter.com/Anncaro11/status/1459356381144707078

19. First Tweet by 3rd ‘Voices for’ community #IndependentsDay candidate - 1 inner Sydney, 2 in regional Qld & NSW.

@KyleaTink #NorthSydneyVotes
@SuzieHolt4Groom #GroomVotes
@PennyAckery #HumeVotes.

Please follow and support these 3 gutsy women who want to serve, not use.

https://twitter.com/pennyackery/status/1459327130576121857

20. The @PennyAckery #HumeVotes campaign has many colours and one logo - Your Community Independent for Hume.

Car stickers -