On Emerald Beach for the first of 3 #PageVotes campaign launches today, @HanabethLuke:
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 19, 2022
“We live in dangerous times where uncertainty has become the norm. We need to take care of each other, and in Page this election has to be about us.”#IndependentsDay pic.twitter.com/NC5FtEZnoR
2. Two questions on exploding house prices and rentals in #PageVotes.@HanabethLuke said she’s seen “a steadily growing housing crisis become a housing emergency over the last two years and, now, a housing catastrophe”.
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 19, 2022
Suggests ending unlimited negative hearing by investors. pic.twitter.com/EubqZuM3uz
Time for change
3. Jane Adams from Sapphire Beach. “It’s well past time for change in how we deal with natural disasters. This election is a great opportunity to get sensible rational minds working on our national issues.”#PageVotes #IndependentsDay pic.twitter.com/TEyCXfcEpM
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 19, 2022
4. @HanabethLuke and sons Tristan and Connie with supporters at Emerald Beach on the first leg of their driving tour campaign launch in #PageVotes today. #IndependentsDay pic.twitter.com/bz0wCxzCZu
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 19, 2022
Dereliction
5. #PageVotes residents in swags in their uninhabitable homes. @hanabethluke: “For our tens of thousands of homeless we need immediate action to develop a long-term plan for our region.”#IndependentsDay https://t.co/gedtxqo2R3
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 19, 2022
6. Maiara Skarheim from #PageVotes ‘Look Right Productions’ and assistant Cara MacLeod are filming @HannabethLuke’s travelling launch day bottom to top of #PageVotes. We’re in Grafton, and all the talk is of the floods. #IndependentsDay pic.twitter.com/glsmHX2Ory
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
7. @hanabethluke’s student Olivia Katz’ photo, old friends Andy Sibley & Iain Dall poster design for #PageVotes.
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
“These are not normal times. 20 supporters have lost their homes. Three are isolating with covid. Another is trying to get family back from Ukraine.”#PageVotes pic.twitter.com/O0P1hV8yTB
Country independents
8. @HanabethLuke’s #PageVotes campaign Grafton launch in Market Square, where Sir Earle Page launched his independent campaign then formed the Country Party. Prue Leggoe, a @voices4page founder, says there’s so few members of the big parties – time for the people to select reps. pic.twitter.com/eeDEiPBfJn
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
9. @HanabethLuke in Grafton:
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
“We are the 8th poorest electorate in the country going backwards under the current government even when Australia’s economy was booming. A political system built on party politics has FAILED us. There is STILL no national regional plan.”#PageVotes pic.twitter.com/kGdUN5GOT9
10. @HanabethLuke’s slogan is ‘Family. Farms. Future. ‘
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
“This is our chance to show the people of Page mean business. This is our chance to shine on the national stage. This is our chance to help transform our broken party politics & make it serve the people.” #IndependentsDay pic.twitter.com/yLrCQsPnZX
11. @HanabethLuke’s with son Connie, learning sound for her #PageVotes campaign.
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
Her Grafton office is opening soon and happens to be in her campaign colours, teal and rust. #IndependentsDay pic.twitter.com/tHmMmvtnDu
12. Berri Brown – @bezmay – from Woombah is @HanabethLuke’s campaign mechanic. With her daughter Freya, Hanabeth and her son Connie after the #PageVotes launch in Grafton.
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
“Let’s we do our bit to ensure disaster lights a flame for change in Page. #IndependentsDay pic.twitter.com/vlPEWx1KBB
Thousands homeless
13. We dropped a microwave, chairs, and wine to the home of a friend of a friend in Woodburn on the way to Lismore for the last leg of @HanabethLuke’s campaign launch.
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
“For our thousands of homeless we need to immediately develop a long-term plan for our region. #PageVotes pic.twitter.com/5p1VJT3Tyc
14. The entire shopping and commercial strip of Woodburn is wiped out, then this-#PageVotes pic.twitter.com/Oo1Qbu4aCL
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
15. This place in Dawson St Lismore was a business lost under 12 feet of water in the floods. The owner cleaned it out & painted a shell for @HanabethLuke volunteers to fill with chairs, coffee machine and a guitarist singer. Big feeling for the last leg of her #PageVotes launch. pic.twitter.com/yTYz8pXc3O
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
16. Hope amid the ruins. No frills, Lismore rising flood-recovered launch shell for the @voices4page community #IndependentsDay candidate @HanabethLuke #PageVotes pic.twitter.com/hHL0qmKdnB
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
Local values
17. Food, art, music in the shell that was a mechanics biz till bought for a cafe, then floods filled it with water. So, a pop up cafe for the @HanabethLuke Lismore launch.
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
A magic way to end a day on the road launching her campaign in the ravaged seat of #PageVotes. pic.twitter.com/HIcyd8gRQl
18. In 2014 Prue Leggoe helped form ‘Can you hear us’, went to Wangaratta to learn from @voicesforindi – couldn’t find a candidate. This time, @voices4page found @HanabethLuke. Big KTC issues corruption, housing (huge homelessness numbers in #PageVotes), health & climate change. pic.twitter.com/rqxD0x6OMG
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
19. @HanabethLuke:
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
“In the racing waters of this terrible flood I saw our Australian values in gumboots – mateship, equality, mutual respect, a fair go, and compassion. I believe that if we work together, we can create a better future in Page.” #PageVotes #IndependentsDay pic.twitter.com/hPP4OTnkSK
20. @HanabethLuke’s launch speech at Emerald Beach this morning. By day’s end she spoke off the cuff at Lismore – I could see her confidence grow. Hanabeth is a wonderful candidate for #PageVotes, folks.
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022
Her life journey so far https://t.co/Z2bBGhTExQ https://t.co/uUIPCJmgsw
Related reading
My life’s road to standing as the #IndependentsDay candidate for #PageVotes
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