Helen Haines is the very best of people. She's respected and loved by every person in our Parliament.
Those of us lucky enough to know her are praying for Helen and her family, team and community tonight.
Kerryn began volunteering in December as a letterboxing leader.
Since then, she packed hundreds of doorknocking folders, wrote letters & helped with merch at HQ.
On election day she captained a polling booth & stayed on after to scrutineer. What an effort!
Thank you, Kerryn.
@BrentHodgson You are truly an inspiration. It’s been a privilege to work with you on the campaign - I can’t wait to do it again!! (After another nap!)
FFS @JoshFrydenberg your bullies at polling booth are an absolute disgrace. They’re representing YOU. Abhorrent behaviour. Even saw your guys yelling at the AEC. Be better. Do better #auspol#KooyongVotes#Kooyong#Mon4Kooyong
⚠️ Do you know anyone who tested positive for COVID between Saturday and Tuesday 6pm? 🦠
Unless they have already voted or applied for a postal vote before now, they won’t be able to vote at all.
This is a major problem. 🧵
#ausvotes#KooyongVotes
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As we face an increasingly fraught future, Menzies’ words are particularly prescient:
”but what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.”
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His description of a community of people whose motto shall be, "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” accurately depicts the people of Kooyong who have worked tirelessly to create change for their children’s and grandchildren’s future.
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Menzies’ great speech appears to admonish current Liberals when he speaks of the danger when we “weigh men as votes and not as human beings”
His celebration of the intelligent drive of the middle class is “the case for a dynamic democracy as against the stagnant one”.
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Menzies celebrated independent thinking, saying “to distrust independent thought, to sneer at & impute false motives to public service - these are maladies of Australian democracy.” Hard to see him supporting MSM & politicians’ sneering “so-called, fake” rhetoric.
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