Thread by @Polisubstance

A thread about the beginning of how I situate my small part in the @Mon4Kooyong vs JoshFry story. Reader, it ends well...💎🌊 (Please indulge me this 🧵as a born and bred Kooyong person, even though I'm not there now.)❤️ #KooyongRising #KooyongVotes #Mon4Kooyong 🧵cont...

I sent Mr Frydenberg an email 11/10/21🧵"Mr Frydenberg, You have just made comments about NSW ‘showing others the way to live with the virus’. For you to stand & say that it would be good to see Vict experiencing the same freedoms as NSW, at the same time, is an insult." cont...

Cont: "Your government failed to secure sufficient vaccines early enough. (Please refute this if you can.) There would not be such lengthy lockdowns & so many Covid deaths if your govt had done its job (feel free to refute this if there is any way you can.)"
#treasurerfornsw

🧵continues: "You have cost us & future taxpayers billions in debt from lax measures around JobKeeper, & we have endured lockdowns in 2021 due to lack of vaccines. You did nothing to manage quarantine, a Federal responsibility, aside from slamming our borders closed..." #binhim

Cont: "You then sought to critique every state with a Labor Premier for escapes from the hastily set-up Hotel Quarantine system. This was put in place because your government had nothing to offer in terms of managing the virus outbreak." 🧵continues...

The email was quite long! "We need only to look at your lack of pandemic planning for Aged Care to see how unprepared & lacking in capacity to take responsibility your Govt was. Victorian deaths in Aged Care in 2020, which LNP MPs like to quote when taking a dig at Vict..." 🧵..

"...occurred in Federal Aged Care facilities, not in State-run homes. And yet you continually mention this awful statistic for your political gain, using the deaths of the elderly as a political scoring point–shameful."🧵 cont...

"Imagine, misrepresenting the facts to the degree that you seek to sow frustration and to undermine compliance with public health measures by comparing NSW TODAY with where Victoria is at!" 🧵 Yes, there's more, reader...

"Why did you get so much money for carparks in Kooyong? Have any been built? Have any been abandoned? Was a needs analysis done as to whether this area was most in need of Public transport parking linkages? Please provide any research or economic case used to justify..." 🧵cont.

Then JobKeeper: "How much money went to JobKeeper recipients who did not experience a drop in income? Why was the system set up without recourse to recouping such overpayments? Is it true that Treasury advised you that this was weakness in the legislation/regulations?"#lnpfail 🧵

"You as a Federal Minister have a powerful position and could work towards making the country a safer, fairer place. Instead you have used misfortune in your home State to elevate yourself and your party in a time of crisis...Please respond..." #KooyongVotes 🧵continues...

And then I wound up. Reader, voter, #KooyongVotes constituent, I never got a response. But there's more to the story of this email... #Mon4Kooyong Anger worked with passion worked with resolve... 🧵continues...

"Please respond" I had asked, "(about) your own personal behaviour in undermining Victorians in such desperate times. Sincerely..." 17 days later, on 28/10/21, I saw a tweet from @simonahac (Thank you! ✨👏) Guess where I sent it? @Mon4Kooyong Thread nearly done, story tbc...

A few days later, I set up this account. The image was a foghorn, blowing across a stretch of ocean at Port Phillip Heads, known as the Rip. I knew something was going to change. @Mon4Kooyong has swum across that Rip. When she said 'YES WE CAN!' I believed her, as did Kooyong! 💎

Thread unroll here (just worked out how to do it!): threadreaderapp.com/thread/1528906… #Mon4Kooyong #KooyongVotes