Leigh: “Both parties are captive to the fossil fuel industry & we need a #federalicac- enough is enough.”
5. @AnnelieseXander fronts the @HumansOfHughes board to tell the story of meeting @RenewHughes first time for coffee and chat about what to do about Craig Kelly. They decided to listen and be positive about finding good, honest representation.
8. @HughesRenews: We get to Canberra by you being you.
When we get there we must pass the @helenhainesindi Federal Integrity Commission bill -
they are acting with impunity, look at Craig Kelly’s behaviour. And we will back the @zalisteggall climate bill.
‘We can show our communities what it means to be a citizen. What can you bring to @HumansOfHughes’ election campaign? Grab the chance to help our democracy.”
11. BIG LOCAL @hughesrenews ENDORSEMENT: Helma Mulhall successfully led the Jannali protests against a NSW Govt plan to demolish 9 homes for a car park when an alternative was available. “I’m behind you,” she says to big applause.
12. Lorraine Oliver: “ I’m here to support my sister @HughesRenews. She never intended to become political but thought it’s not right what Craig Kelly was doing. So she formed @HumansOfHughes, listened, found she connected with people and here we are!”
17. PODCAST: our #transitzone podcast interview with the 4th ‘Voices for’ community #IndependentsDay candidate, @HughesRenews before she decided to stand. It’s fascinating.
25. #HughesVotes has one of the highest COVID vaccination rates in the nation, and thanks to the PM’s intervention before the last #ausvotes to save Craig Kelly it is ‘represented’ by the anti-vax Clive Palmer’s UAP.
I was intrigued by her story - an architectural communications specialist on Olympics & ICCs locked down no work deciding to stop angsting about Craig Kelly & gather a community together to stand an independent. So #transitzone interviewed her in May. /2
I live-tweeted @drkerrynphelps and @indigocathy launch the @HumansOfHughes group’s findings from its listening process at a community hall next to a western Sydney mall. Thread starts here- /3
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.
1086. @NoFibs#IndependentsDay columnist @adropex on climate change and the #IndiWay of selecting community independent candidates to bring city and country together on climate change.
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 - let’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 hasn’t done it because it can’t be done. This is AWFUL, & she confirms there’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.
415. Frydenburg gave $25 billion to companies who made false projections of revenue fall to get Jobkeeper & didn’t require make they repay money not needed. $9 billion to companies who PROFITED. He must resign or get the money back.
Premier and PM for Sydney deserted NSW regions & Nats MPs betrayed everyone in their seats. Only an emerging catastrophe in Dubbo-Walgett, where the PM broke his pledge to vaccinate Aboriginal people as a top priority, does Gladys require a permit to leave Sydney. #Comboyne
2. Wanna know how Sydney-centric Gladys and the Nats in her Coalition are, how dismissive of the safety of NSW regional residents? Check out these new restrictions, which would have been in place from day 1 if they gave a shit. #Comboyne
3. NSW Police Commissioner says “biggest rorts” are Sydney residents improperly going to the regions. Been going on for weeks, even in #Comboyne, where cops didn’t even breach the offender when residents reported her. At least a permit is needed now. Where were the bloody Nats??