Thread by @margokingston1

I’ll do a thread on the undecided #WentworthVotes audience questions at the @spenderallegra v @DaveSharma debate.

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!

4. Your views on religious freedom?

Allegra: Don’t elevate religious freedom above the rights of people not to be discriminated against.

Sharma: Backs protection for private schools gay teachers! Not on Govt agenda at all.

5. Moderator: Federal Integrity Commission?

Sharma: Wants one, doesn’t endorse Morrison’s model! Wants no ‘kangaroo court’.

Allegra: Backs @helenhainesindi bill. Govt model - no whistleblower referrals, no public hearings, no non-criminal corruption can be looked at.

4. Future of NDIS?

Allegra: we need a user-centric model and an easier movement in and out of the system.

Sharma: pro forma.

5. To Sharma: Not just economy important - climate change inaction, no icac with teeth, treatment of refugees, no ban on political lies at elections.

To Allegra: Why did you stand and split the moderate vote?

6. Sharma: wants no truth in advertisng laws, just a “Minnistey of Truth”.

Allegra: backs @zalisteggall’s Truth in Advertising bill@to@protect democracy.

Standing against Sharma because he won’t vote for cc action and integrity commission. He votes for party not policy…

7. Sharma: Likes being part of ‘a team’ because “I can be more effective in that role”.

I’ll argue for a higher 2030 cc target.

Allegra: To avoid catastrophic cc we must have 50% reduction by 2030.

8. Sharma: how far will you go to vote your conscience?

Sharma: Have I made a commitment to the electorate? So crossed the floor once. ‘Expect me to behave as a Lib MP. I’m a team player.”

Allegra: I’ll consult community all the time - an indie can help shape the debate.

9. Should we limit population growth to preserve the planet’s limited capacity.

Sharma: it is peaking.

Allegra: we need to take right actions now as stewards of the environment.

10. Moderator: should the foreign minister have been sent to the Solomon Islands?

Sharma: no answer, even when pressed.

Allegra: We knew since August & never sent the foreign minister there, we’ve cut aid to Pacific, we’ve ignored Pacific’s top issue - cc. We have to step up.

11. Do you have solar panels & an EV?

Sharma: No.

Allegra. Can’t have solar where I live -strata - trying to change the system so she & others can. Doesn’t have an EV - no garage to charge it - so drives a hybrid.

12. Views on 99 year lease of Darwin port to China? (Done by NT LNP Govt, allowed by Coalition Govt, which could have stopped it).

Allegra: Yes.
Sharma: We’ve changed the law to stop it now (not then).

13.Moderator on the Oz’s anti-Jewish smear on Allegra.

Both agree with each other.

14. Moderator - @climate200 connection.

Allegra: vast majority of my funding local. Had strong views on cc & integrity long before C200 started.

Moderator: why do you vote with Barnaby on cc etc

‘I’ll be an advocate for stronger cc action’. Politics ‘the art of compromise’.

15. My summary: The choice is to trust Allegra to make a difference by working across Parliament on the big issues or Dave to basically agree with her on the issues but remain powerless in a ‘Liberal’ Party that has abandoned liberalism.

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