Kerryn Phelps election night party #WentworthVotes. Photo: via Guardian AU

In 2018 Peter Dutton led two challenges against then Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull the second leading to, Scott Morrison becoming leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister.
Turnbull resigned and a by-election was called in the seat of Wentworth which was won by, Kerryn Phelps (@drkerrynphelps ) defeating Liberal candidate, Dave Sharma.
Sharma will again contest the seat against, Phelps.
Refugee human rights was one of three main issues at the Wentworth by-election, Phelps led the cross bench charge for refugees held in detention on Manus and Nauru to be medically evacuated when in need of medical care that could not be provided in those locations.

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Area: 38 sq km
Location: Eastern Suburbs Sydney
Australian Electoral Commission seat profile
Division of Wentworth on Wikipedia
Kerryn Phelps: website

PODCAST: Spender tells #TransitZone ‘public education vital for communities including #WentworthVotes’

THE SYDNEY METROPOLITIAN electorate of Wentworth is both affluent and very diverse – geographically much of it hugs Sydney Harbour. The current Liberal Party incumbent is Dave Sharma, who won the seat back from independent MP Kerryn Phelps at the 2019 election. Sharma bills himself as a moderate, but his voting record belies that. Earlier MPs […]

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GALLERY: Allegra Spender’s #WentworthVotes launch through Larry Meltzer’s eye

Read Margo’s campaign launch Twitter report: Liberalism roars back to life as Allegra Spender stands up for #WentworthVotes Read: TRANSCRIPT: A blueprint for modern Liberals in Allegra Spender’s campaign launch for #WentworthVotes

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TRANSCRIPT: A blueprint for modern Liberals in Allegra Spender’s campaign launch for #WentworthVotes

BEFORE WE BEGIN, I’d like to acknowledge that we are on the land of the Gadigal and the Birrabirragal people, the traditional custodians of the land. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.  Hello, my name’s Allegra Spender. Thank you, Jillian, for that introduction. You have been an inspiration to me. You […]

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THREAD: Liberalism roars back to life as Allegra Spender stands up for #WentworthVotes

1. Pouring rain so the @spenderallegra campaign launch is now at Paddington RSL, midday. Her logo: ‘A better climate for Wentworth.’ Her #IndependentsDay platform – pic.twitter.com/IUOgIV8Nxa — 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) November 27, 2021 2. Pre-launch briefing for volunteers before @spenderallegra launches her #IndependentsDay campaign – registration, T-shirt collection, ushers. She will not give preferences – […]

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Woulda, coulda, but didn’t: walking the #ClimateAction talk

COMMENT: Before jetting off to Glasgow via Rome, Scott Morrison was in full ‘fatherhood’ mode. As prime minister he pledged to shield the nation from the nasty side effects of committing to net zero emissions; and the cherry on top is that we’ll benefit from all the economic opportunities on offer. Maybe we’re even front […]

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Turnbull reads Scotty’s COVID report card: Peter Clarke’s view from ‘the bunker’

WHEN we first locked down in Melbourne in mid-March, 2020, I had just finished building a small, state-of-the-art, sound-recording studio in a bungalow in our backyard. The final foam squares and carpet were put in place just before we hunkered down. The project started between the 2019-20 bushfires and the rapid arrival in our lives […]

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Just a complete train wreck: Transcript of Part 2 of the #transitzone interview with Malcom Turnbull

Peter Clarke: Let’s get back to the elephant in the room. Mr Turnbull, recently you said you can’t think of “a bigger black and white failure of public administration” than the Morrison government’s failures in procuring covid vaccines and their design and execution of the vaccination rollout. Now, as you well know, we in Australia […]

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Transcript of interview by Peter Clarke and Margo Kingston with former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recorded August 11, 2012, lightly edited for clarity and succinctness. Part 1

Transcript part 1 Peter Clarke: Our guest is somebody who’s experienced democratic politics from the outside as a lawyer, banker and journalist, and from right inside the corridors and backrooms of power, where the sausages are actually made, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018, Malcolm Turnbull. Mr Turnbull, welcome to the […]

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Turnbull takes to liberalism’s lifeboat as LNP ‘broad church’ blows up: Margo Kingston reports on #IndependentsDay

MALCOLM Turnbull would consider voting for a strong moderate liberal independent in the Sydney federal electorate of Wentworth, and has named NSW seats he believes could be vulnerable if ‘voices for’ groups nominate outstanding moderate liberal independents – Wentworth, Mackellar, North Sydney, Bradfield and Hume.  In an interview for the #transitzone podcast, the former prime minister […]

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Voters of Wentworth can present the nation with a gift: @margokingston1 comments #wentworthvotes (archive)

First published SMH September 26, 2018. I celebrated Malcolm Turnbull’s ascension to Australia’s leadership by publishing a photo on Twitter of my mother and I toasting him with champagne. “Small l liberalism” – socially progressive, economically dry, environmentally green – was on the rise again in the Liberal Party. Of course, the right wing clipped […]

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Seven months that changed Australian politics: @drkerrynphelps #GettingElected speech at #indivotes @indigocathy’s #IndependentsDay conference

Also read: How the pop-up @DrKerrynPhelps campaign for Wentworth came together: a @margokingston1 dinner party debrief The role of people, preferences, policies, politics and power in Wentworth from October 2018- May 2019 AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 1999-2003 The Wentworth by-election was not my first foray into the Federal political arena. In 2000 I was elected as […]

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How the pop-up @DrKerrynPhelps campaign for Wentworth came together: a @margokingston1 dinner party debrief

Also: Reporting Indi: A reflection by Margo Kingston My interest in community independents began when I covered the successful Cathy McGowan race for Indi in 2013, on Twitter and through my website No Fibs. In 2018, I became Kerryn Phelps’ unofficial Twitter campaign manager for the Wentworth by-election and focused on independents at the 2019 election, […]

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Kerryn Phelps senses a momentum shift in Wentworth: @margokingston1 #WentworthVotes #podcast

Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) chats with Dr Kerryn Phelps (@drkerrynphelps) in the final days of her campaign as an Independent in the Sydney electorate of Wentworth, and updates listeners that she is sensing a real momentum shift, much the same as she experienced in the previous by-election. I’m sensing a momentum shift in Wentworth in the […]

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Strategic voting for blue, red and green progressives in safe Coalition seats: @margokingston1 #IndependentsDay #AusVotes guide

Now that pre-polling stations have opened nationwide, voting in the 2019 federal election has begun, so here’s my strategic voting guide in our #IndependentsDay seats. As many No Fibs readers know by now, I waged a relentless strategic voting education campaign at the Wentworth by-election after Kerryn Phelps upset progressive voters by preferencing the Liberal […]

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A successful #IndependentsDay is like winning Eurovision: @adropex reviews #GetElected #ActiveDemocracy

Pale, male and stale The political class ‘is on the nose’ and trust in our politicians is going into a deep dive. Parliament is seen as being dominated by “personalities, parties and pecuniary interests”. People are tired of the scandals, the factional power struggles and the revolving door of leadership and prime ministers. With each […]

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Kerryn Phelps stepping up again: @margokingston1 #WentworthVotes #podcast

Margo Kingston interviews Dr Kerryn Phelps, member for Wentworth to discuss why authenticity and delivering on promises is key to her campaign.

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The @NoFibs #IndependentsDay Twitter mission at #ausvotes: @margokingston1 comments

The way I see it, every safe Coalition seat must be in play in the sense that quality indies ask tough questions incumbents are forced to answer. That requires courageous indies & committed, creative citizens because a weakened local media can’t do it. Ready to play? #ausvotes — Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) February 22, 2019 Hi. […]

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Rusted off or how I learned to stop worrying and love the indie: @jansant comments #WentworthVotes #auspol

You could say I’ve been pretty loud in the #WentworthVotes hashtag and you’d be right. Here’s why. In 2013 I was convinced (maybe easily) by a few Twitter accounts I banter with in #auspol to contribute to Margo Kingston’s No Fibs Federal election coverage. A project/experiment with citizens reporting from the seats they lived in: or grassroots […]

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