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.
6. Joint boycott reason: TBN president supports @SuzieHolt4Groom so the forums are biased. Format - short speeches then open mike for audience questions.
Crowd told others ‘unable to attend’.
Groans by the big workers crowd. One shouts: “Thanks for showing up!”
7. After speeches, another audience member yells ‘Name and shame ‘em” (the absent candidates).
? on preferences.
ON: head office decided, stresses pref who you like.
UAP: Majors need to be last. @SuzieHolt4Groom - no prefs.
AFP: Indies before LNP, ALP, Greens. #GroomVotes
8. #GroomVotes One Nation prefs LNP MP Garth Hamilton and he puts ON’s Grant Abraham 2 on his HTV.
Explains why Grant told last night’s forum head office had decided his HTV card but to pref as they liked (see 7).
10. Out west in #GroomVotes - farming and Oakey families invited by beef farmer Frank Ashman to hear from @suzieholt4groom. The Darling Downs food bowl is the foundation of Groom’s wealth, several guests desperate to make Groom marginal.
11. Brymaroo graziet Frank Ashman hosted a neigbours and friends event for @SuzieHolt4Groom then lunch and chat. With his Mustang and the plane he built (!)
12 @SuzieHolt4Groom Brymaroo event photos by her volunteer campaign photographer Michael Spence. Manyfighting so so long to stop more coal & #csg mining on the Darling Downs food bowl. Others, undecided, came along to meet Suzie.
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!
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?
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.
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 :)
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.