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 ‘a gap in the market’.
2. @climate200 denies conflict of interest in Hodgkinson’s lucrative double play.

Aren’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/t…
3. I worked with Simon on @NoFibs’ 2010 #IndependentsDay campaign & he donated to my crowdfund. I knew @climate200 donated to 3 candidates we backed, none on the story’s list.

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

amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/t…
4. @NoFibs is all-volunteer for #ausvotes - I pay expenses due to gifts from close personal friends.

The first I knew of @simonahac’s ramp up of @climate200 was when he announced.

I believe complete separation of donor and donee is imperative for #IndependentsDay campaigns.
5. I also believe it is untenable for people in @climate200 to hawke their services to candidates and profit from their campaigns.

@NoFibs disassociates itself from @Climate200 unless it radically restructures as a donor vehicle, not a pseudo Party.

amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/t…@
6. I hope those #IndependentsDay candidates enmeshed in buying services from associates of @Climate200 disentangle themselves.

The ‘Voices for’ movement is distinct from @climate200, and 3 @NoFibs #IndependentsDay candidates have not applied for @climate200 support.

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More from @margokingston1

Feb 16
1. For those wondering what the ‘Voices for’ movement is here’s a deeply researched essay by #BoothbyVotes independent candidate @instanterudite. I’m not a source :)

#IndependentsDay
2. My @SaturdayPaper take on the ‘Voices for’ movement and it’s relationship with @Climate200.

#IndependentsDay

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
3. The finale of the @adropex series on the birth & evolution of the ‘Voices for’ movement’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-…
Read 4 tweets
Feb 15
1. An Australian second wave feminist icon, @takingalongview, with the perfect and timely title for her memoire.

Wendy has endorsed @spenderallegra for #WentworthVotes

personal thread…
2. I met Wendy as a university student when I was Quentin Bryce’s children-sitter. Quentin was Qld’s Rep on Malcolm Fraser’s National Women’s Advisory Council and Wendy rep’d NSW. Dame Beryl Beaurepaire chaired the Council.

womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0019b…
3. The next time I saw Wendy was at the @drkerrynphelps’ by-election night party on October 20, 2018. Wendy chaired Kerryn’s campaign for #WentworthVotes.
Read 8 tweets
Feb 13
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. Wouldn’t that be interesting :)
3. WILD: @JasonFalinskiMP says Labor must put all #IndependentsDay candidates LAST because @zalisteggall amended her donation return.

Jason, what’s your #ausvotes #HonestPolitics plan? Debate it with @SophieScamps in #MackellarVotes?

Do you back Zali’s’ PolAdsTruth bill?
Read 7 tweets
Feb 8
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.

Ground zero for liberalism’s fightback is @SuzieHolt4Groom’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
Read 23 tweets
Feb 3
Excellent backstory to the PM’s startling change of legislative policy on gay students by @LisaVisentin.

I’d add the PM’s pledge during the #WentworthVotes by election in Oct 2018 to URGENTLY ban private schools expelling students for being gay.
2. And here’s the blow-back to the PM’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 didn’t like it then pledged to repeal the law allowing it urgently. By @Paul_Karp

#IndependentsDay

theguardian.com/australia-news…
Read 13 tweets
Feb 2
Barnaby explosively inserts the Nats into the Liberal Party’s crisis.

It’s a woman!

I told her to Confess!

… the PM says he believes no Cabinet minister wrote the texts & is ‘not fussed’ to know who…
2. Oh, Barnaby denies he revealed the texter was a woman.
4. Since Barnaby knows which Cabinet texter gave them to van Onselen and has told him or her to confess, has he disabused Morrison of his confidence that the story is untrue?
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