Perth multi-millionaire and Teals financier Simon Holmes-a-Court allegedly paid for and organized an extravagant campaign launch, Climate 200, at the Dendy Cinema at Coorparoo, Brisbane where the Teal candidate running against Opposition leader Peter Dutton in the seat of Dickson, Ellie Smith publicly admitted she was a GREENIE at heart.
Australia’s potential future prime minister holds onto his seat of Dickson by a slim 1.7 per cent, making it the most marginal federal seat in Queensland.
the 2022 election but their presence in
federal parliament has been lacklustre to
say the least. The Teals are just a bunch of
bored housewives whose main task is to
support Labor and Greens
Just 3,363 votes secured Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s re-election in 2022.
Cairns News contacted Ellie Smith asking if she was a member of the Greens or any other party or if she was being funded by Holmes-a-Court.
She said she had never been a member of any party and the majority of her campaign funds were donated by the people of Dickson.
“I am a community independent. I was selected by local community representatives through the group Dickson Decides, Ms Smith said.
“I was selected by the local community in Dickson and I represent the local community in Dickson.
“I have been overwhelmed by the support that the local community has shown me in the first few weeks since they selected me to run on their behalf.
“This includes the number of donations – the vast majority of which have been provided by people in Dickson.
“I have an Honours in Environmental Management from the University of Queensland.
“I have never been a member of any political party.”
The really sad part of the campaign launch was the long theatrical Welcome to Country. Holmes- a- Court, has shown disrespect to Australia putting on a theatrical ceremony concocted by Aboriginal actor Ernie Dingo and Richard Whalley, of the Middar Aboriginal Theatre in 1976.
They invented the “welcome to country” because Maori visitors from NZ and the Cook Islands wanted an equivalent of their own traditional ceremony before they would dance at the Perth International Arts Festival. The sadness is the gullibility of the people who swallowed it.
Clearly the TEAL candidates in their campaign launch as a national unified community of independents group funded and managed by Holmes-a-Court’s well organized political structure show they are not independents at all but part of a well-organized political party structure, in reality an unregistered political party.
The Australian Electoral Commission should have barred them from standing at the next election as independents, for clearly, they are part of an unregistered organized political party structure led by Holmes-a- Court. – From Gil May
