Sensible women and men have had more than enough. They also have plenty of alternatives come the next election if they still feel that the current crop of national leaders is failing them.
Teal candidates were the surprise success at the last federal election. Now the people who backed them to win are targeting local government.
Rugby fans have the knives out for RA boss Hamish McLennan. On Instagram,his wife Lucinda fought back.
One of the key backers of the teal movement argued nuclear energy could conceivably play a role in Australia in the 2040s,though he described the Coalition’s energy policy as fanciful.
The Climate 200 political funding group says the Labor and Liberal parties benefitted from $212 million in public funding in the four years before the 2022 Victorian election.
Labor’s Don Farrell shrugged off the teal movement’s concern that new election spending rules will stymie independents.
Angelo von Moller,18,is considering running as an independent in the state seat following the resignation of Liberal MP Ryan Smith.
Climate 200,which is backing teal independent candidates,received donations from non-alcoholic brewers Heaps Normal.
From the tip of Palm Beach,to North Sydney’s CBD,south of the harbour in Vaucluse and out to the southern highlands,independent teal candidates are swarming to win a seat in the March 25 election.
The “daily assault from News Corp” and the public broadcaster’s failure to reach younger audiences were common concerns among the would-be directors.
As the constitutional lawyer George Williams said a few years ago:“We have donations laws you could drive a truck through”. That truck just got bigger.