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 &’crushed its liberal wing.
5. @BenSmee uncovered LNP donors, branch stacks and Party politics by Citipointe’s churchgoers as they tried to punish LNP MP Steve Minnikin for his conscience vote supporting decriminalisation of abortion in Qld.
Is #GroomVotes’ Highlands Church enmeshed in Groom LNP?
8. Stand by: @SenatorRennick and anaesthetist @MilesBrodie1 (husband of @SuzieHolt4Groom) begin discussions on the science supporting the Qld LNP Senator’s stance on child covid vaccination
20. The Pittsworth Sentinel (not on Twitter yet) reports visits by @SuzieHolt to the #GroomVotes farming town.
21. SCOOP: Today’s #GroomVotes email to members gearing up for a serious challenge from @SuzieHolt4Groom at a May election.
Groom is the second safest Liberal seat in Australia and the only Qld seat contested by an #IndependentsDay candidate.
22. The @SuzieHolt4Groom corflutes have arrived for #GroomVotes as today’s leaked Groom LNP email to members says its campaign begins Monday after strong donations from local businesses due to the LNP MP’s “productive relationships” with them. @the_chronicle_
26. NEWS: @SuzieHolt4Groom goes public after @mattjcan fails to retract & apologise for allegedly false, defamatory claims designed to destroy her campaign for #GroomVotes.
She also asks LNP MP Garth Hamilton to dissociate himself from Canavan’s claims.
28. A @mattjcan slur of @SuzieHolt4Groom: “funded by outside, cashed up radical activists” & not a ‘true local’. Designed to destroy her campaign with lies.
Suzie’s donations policy is #Queenslander only - so far all donations are from Groom.
Her letter, Canavan’s reply
29. @SuzieHolt invited a member of extinction rebellion, along with conservative business people in #GroomVotes to her home for the first Kitchen Table Conversation of @GroomVoices.
I wonder, does LNP MP refuse to speak to constituents he doesn’t agree with?
30. The context of the terrible thing @mattjcan and the #GroomVotes LNP member say @SuzieHolt4Groom did by inviting an Extinction Rebellion member to @GroomVoices’ first Kitchen Table Conversation.
32. @SuzieHolt4Groom demands a transition plan for the #GroomVotes town of Oakey, where the Acland coal mine is likely to close. An Oakey Champion (not on Twitter) story.
33. @7NewsToowoomba reports @SuzieHolt4Groom’s attempt to get a correction and apology from @mattjcan after he falsely alleged she was funded by ‘outside, cashed up radical activists’ and was not a ‘true local’. By @SamFMcManus
There it is. Former DHS secretary Renee Leon said she and 4 other Dept secretaries were sacked by Morrison Govt after the 2019 election because they believed in “frank and fearless advice”.
#Robotdebt
23. This @lukehgomes 2019
gets it a little wrong - Govt decided to #Robotdebt aged pensioners from the start, put those savings into forward estimates, then exempted aged pensioners. Fiscal corruption, yes?
3. Good start for the sitting LNP MP in @the_chronicle_ exit poll on day 1 of #GroomVotes pre-polling. Please follow @GillespieTom17, who’s on the ground for the Toowoomba daily.
An explosive report in Toowoomba’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 tonight’s candidates forum in Highfield?
3. #GroomVotes voters, you can question @SuzieHolt4Groom at tonight’s Toowoomba Busienss Network candidates forum. The sitting LNP has refused to attend - his one and only candidates forum was last night.
This is what happens when @CUhlmann smears @Mon4Kooyong in a Tweet without context. Terrible loss for @9NewsAUS and voters. A debate in Kooyong with undecided constituents on Nine would have been free to air. But will Josh be game to agree?
2. What the hell is wrong with @abcnews and @9NewsAUS??? Surely a local town hall with undecided local voters is not beyond them? Free to air much better for all voters. 3 times now Murdoch’s Sky - Zali-Abbott 2019, Allegra-Sharma, now maybe Monique-Josh is bloody ridiculous.
3. I thought when @David_Speers joined @abcnews it was in box seat to host a free to air town-hall #leadersdebate pioneered by Sky. To have the first #leadersdebate on a Murdoch cable channel live-streamed by Murdoch media a disgrace.
‘Liberal’ 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 ‘Liberal’ 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 ‘Liberal’ Party fundraiser. This Govt sells its soul and our democracy very cheap.
1. Alllegra, who would you vote for in a hung Parliament? And what about the cost of living?
2. Allegra: I’m open to work with whoever forms Govt. If a hung Parliament it depends what is on the table by both. Whever wins I will work across Parliament for action on climate change, integrity etc.
3. What will you do about the pensioner deeming rate re nursing homes?
Moderator question: Deves?
Sharma: Her comments “reprehensible”. No comment on disendorsement. Admits our laws already allow exclusion of trans women from competitive women’s sport!