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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day 30 cont 🚫🪧🙋‍♀️</p><p>Not to be outdone by the Liberals, in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Brunswick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brunswick</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> and the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greens</span></a> take signs to a new level:</p><p>“With election day looming, campaigning has kicked into overdrive in Davies Street in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Brunswick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brunswick</span></a>, home to the sole pre-polling booth in the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WillsElectorate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillsElectorate</span></a>.</p><p>Volunteers from every party were out in force last week, distributing how-to-vote cards and slapping up signs at the voting-queue entrance.</p><p>But on Monday, as the clock ticked down to election day on Saturday, the parties took it to the next level, particularly Labor members.</p><p>They plastered 162 <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/corflutes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corflutes</span></a> (I counted), double stacked, on the fence around the voting centre, and inside where <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voters</span></a> queue.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://archive.md/IspsW" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/IspsW</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt; / &lt;<a href="https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/victoria-s-hot-seats-live-updates-cost-of-living-in-focus-in-final-week-of-campaigning-20250425-p5lu8k.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theage.com.au/politics/federal</span><span class="invisible">/victoria-s-hot-seats-live-updates-cost-of-living-in-focus-in-final-week-of-campaigning-20250425-p5lu8k.html</span></a>&gt; (paywall)</p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day 30 cont 🚫🪧🙋‍♀️</p><p>The Liberals have a candidate problem continued: </p><p>“A legal stoush is brewing over the arms race of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/corflutes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corflutes</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/signage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signage</span></a> proliferating at a pre-polling centre on High Street in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Kew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kew</span></a>, with the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LiberalParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiberalParty</span></a> now threatening to take <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BoroondaraCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoroondaraCouncil</span></a> to court.” </p><p>The number of corflutes? 50. The candidate? Amelia Hamer. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coalition</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lawyers</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AmeliaHamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmeliaHamer</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Kooyong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kooyong</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://archive.md/IspsW" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/IspsW</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt; / &lt;<a href="https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/victoria-s-hot-seats-live-updates-cost-of-living-in-focus-in-final-week-of-campaigning-20250425-p5lu8k.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theage.com.au/politics/federal</span><span class="invisible">/victoria-s-hot-seats-live-updates-cost-of-living-in-focus-in-final-week-of-campaigning-20250425-p5lu8k.html</span></a>&gt; (paywall)</p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day 18 cont 😷👺🥷⛏️🪓🔨</p><p>April 13 “The rightwing <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/advocacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>advocacy</span></a> group <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Advance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Advance</span></a> has acknowledged it is paying for election materials attacking the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greens</span></a> to be used by third-party groups during the election campaign.</p><p>“Advance is working with hundreds of volunteers from dozens of community groups to defeat Greens candidates and we make no apology,” a spokesperson said.</p><p>The spokesperson said Advance did not fund groups directly but “we absolutely pay for anti-Greens campaign material to be at the disposal of volunteers”.</p><p>“This includes 2m <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/flyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flyers</span></a> and thousands of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TShirts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TShirts</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/corflutes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corflutes</span></a>. Again, we make *no apologies*.” — <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/MatthewSheahan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MatthewSheahan</span></a></p><p>Is this also the work of Advance? </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Nationals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nationals</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/13/rightwing-lobby-group-advance-says-it-makes-no-apology-for-support-given-to-anti-greens-groups" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/apr/13/rightwing-lobby-group-advance-says-it-makes-no-apology-for-support-given-to-anti-greens-groups</span></a>&gt;</p>