Voices of the Top End

Voices of the Top End (VoTE) is a grassroots organisation providing a simple way for community to be heard and represented by the people we elect.

[Voices of the Top End @voices_topend]

Thank you @danilic - federal election laid out here clearly !

[Voices of the Top End @voices_topend]

Why not have some discussion, some analysis and critical thinking. The adversarial stuff is time wasting, the above can be done without bad behaviour.

[Phillip Adams @PhillipAdams_1]

It is time for the caucus to get raucous over AUKUS

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

The AUKUS submarine deal has been exposed as a monumental folly. Is it time to abandon ship? via @crikey_news https://t.co/4Vjfh4y6Q8

[Voices of the Top End @voices_topend]

@MrRexPatrick we do need free and excellent university education for our society, it pays back to the economy, and reduces inequity. Our talent pool should include everyone, not just the people who can afford.

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

4 ideas for our ‘rich’ unis. 1) Stop whining about limits on foreign students. 2) Stop the sole focus on profits and focus on education for nation building. 2) Halve VC’s 7 figure salaries. 3) Lobby Govt to commit billions to Australian research, not US/UK submarine yards #auspol

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

While politicians posture to criminalise children as young as 10, remember not a single politician has faced a single charge for Robodebt.

Not a single one.

[Sophie McNeill @Sophiemcneill]

I can't believe this is real. Australia's largest fossil fuel company @WoodsideEnergy wants to build a massive new gas field in endangered whale habitat & this is how our public broadcaster reports it?!

As a former @abcnews journo I'm just aghast. What the hell has happened to our ABC? https://t.co/xcZSOzDbSc

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

Inequality is a choice. Our Government can choose to lift support payments above the poverty line.

They can choose to tax gas companies properly to raise the revenue a healthy and fair society needs.

@RDNS_TAI #auspol #NPC

[Voices of the Top End @voices_topend]

The budget shows everyone what the government cares about. Think about that and put government spending through that lens.

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

Inequality is a choice. Our Government can choose to lift support payments above the poverty line.

They can choose to tax gas companies properly to raise the revenue a healthy and fair society needs.

@RDNS_TAI #auspol #NPC

[marquelawyers @marquelawyers]

“It costs over $1 million every year to lock up a child, and most will continue to reoffend because their basic needs are not being met." - Anne Hollands, National Children's Commissioner
https://t.co/eLhBxA3L8j.

[Voices of the Top End @voices_topend]

@Craig_Foster @Craig_Foster would you visit us in the Top End? We are building our democracy and we need your help :)

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

.@Richard_D_Boyle called out unethical conduct by the @ato_gov_au and is now facing jail for doing so. Even though @AlboMP & @MarkDreyfusKCMP know our whistleblower laws are broken, they’ve failed to intervene. Retweet this video and join our campaign. 👉 https://t.co/qYqukRBx81

[Voices of the Top End @voices_topend]

@KosSamaras @KosSamaras Universities being big businesses seems to have reduced the social good they do in our society? Free and excellent education pays back over and over in our society and economy. Taxing the big corporates will pay for it.

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

"If Darwin can swing hard to the Greens and Indpts then it would be a brave federal Labor backbencher who believes there is no need to rethink the Albanese Govt's love of gas"

@RDNS_TAI in @TheNewDailyAu on the implications of the NT election #auspol

https://t.co/PYyjOqrZMW

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

Timor-Leste is standing up to Santos and its Bayu Undan gas project partners to ensure its citizens get a fair share of revenue from its national resources. If Timor can stand up to the energy giants, why can’t our government? #RhetoricalQuestion #auspol https://t.co/qqssS9xTka

[Voices of the Top End @voices_topend]

Congratulations to all the volunteers and supporters who supported this amazing community candidate Justine Davis.

[Voices of the Top End @voices_topend]

@RDNS_TAI the cost of ignoring community members is that they will find other options to vote for. It's counterintuitive but it is creating an opportunity for communities to get their own representatives, it's motivating people.

[Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell]

Thinking about the theme of the DNC conference of 'do something'

It of course applies for us here in #auspol too

Rolling sleeves up & helping candidates for #ausvotes25 - in or near your electorate - is the best way to address the issues we see here everyday

What's your plan?

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

"So that's close to $1 billion every year that the NT is missing out on.

"Money that could have been spent on schools, hospitals, doctors, solutions to social problems"

@MarkOgge on @ABCaustralia in Alice Springs explaining that gas companies are ripping off the NT #auspol

[Kate Chaney @ChaneyforCurtin]

Apparently we need these predatory companies to prop up our media! Nothing to see here…
When Tabcorp called a customer with concerns about gambling addiction, it ended with Tabcorp giving them a $2000 deposit match. Conflicted?#gamblingreform #auspol https://t.co/ODKl9X8HUF

[Voices of the Top End @voices_topend]

Major parties over the last 40 years have acted in self interest not for future generations. Not surprising at all - that policy that disadvantages young people means that the major parties will loose their loyalty.