THREAD: Hanabeth Luke paging Canberra from flood devastated communities of #PageVotes

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Margo Kingston

Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs

Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She is best known for her stint as Phillip Adams’ ‘Canberra Babylon’ contributor and her work at The Sydney Morning Herald and #Webdiary. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and No Fibs.

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On Emerald Beach for the first of 3 #PageVotes campaign launches today, @HanabethLuke:

“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

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 19, 2022

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”.

Suggests ending unlimited negative hearing by investors. pic.twitter.com/EubqZuM3uz

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 19, 2022

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.

“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

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022

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:

“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

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022

10. @HanabethLuke’s slogan is ‘Family. Farms. Future. ‘

“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

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022

11. @HanabethLuke’s with son Connie, learning sound for her #PageVotes campaign.

Her Grafton office is opening soon and happens to be in her campaign colours, teal and rust. #IndependentsDay pic.twitter.com/tHmMmvtnDu

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022

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.

“Let’s we do our bit to ensure disaster lights a flame for change in Page. #IndependentsDay pic.twitter.com/vlPEWx1KBB

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022

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.

“For our thousands of homeless we need to immediately develop a long-term plan for our region. #PageVotes pic.twitter.com/5p1VJT3Tyc

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022

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.

A magic way to end a day on the road launching her campaign in the ravaged seat of #PageVotes. pic.twitter.com/HIcyd8gRQl

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022

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:

“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

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022

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.

Her life journey so far https://t.co/Z2bBGhTExQ https://t.co/uUIPCJmgsw

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 20, 2022

Related reading

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