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'Take two in Bradfield: hundreds of teal volunteers head down a familiar road'
The Guardian 12th Mar 2025
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'Nicolette Boele’s campaign has deep roots in the community and a battalion of volunteers.'
Inside Story 7th Mar 2025
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'Julia Zemiro talks with Nicolette Boele about why she ran in Bradfield in 2022 and why she's running again in 2025.'
The Independents Podcast 17th Feb 2025
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'Nicolette Boele talks about her campaign launch and the power of community independents to change politics.'
Women's agenda - 7th Feb 2025
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'A sea of teal-shirted local volunteers showed up for the campaign launch of Nicolette Boele, the independent running for the seat of Bradfield. The once-safe North Shore seat is now balanced by a fine margin'
The Lorikeet - 3rd Feb 2025
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'Teal independent campaign receives boost as Liberal moderate resigns'
The ABC, 10th Dec 2024
Paul Fletcher's retirement gives a major boost to the campaign of independent Nicolette Boele in the northern Sydney seat of Bradfield.
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‘Like a child throwing toys from his cot’: Kylea Tink lashes Liberal MP
Sydney Morning Herald, 7th Dec 2024
North Sydney independent MP Kylea Tink will throw her backing behind community independent Nicolette Boele, who ran against Fletcher in 2022.
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If Albanese wins the next election he should celebrate, then step aside
Sydney Morning Herald, 5th Dec 2024
The Coalition also remains vulnerable to community independents, particularly in the once blue-ribbon Liberal, now marginal, NSW seat of Bradfield, even before Paul Fletcher told his constituents they were dopes for backing teal candidates.
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View from The Hill: Paul Fletcher’s rant against the teals risks insulting voters the Liberals need to win
The Conversation, 3rd Dec 2024
Teal candidate Nicolette Boele pushed the result in Bradfield to preferences, leaving her within striking distance for next year’s poll. But Paul Fletcher's at risk of alienating and insulting the voters he needs to get on side.
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The Voice of A Community: Nicolette Boele on Local Politics, Local Change and the Potential For A Real Shift
Finding Nature podcast, 13th Nov 2024
Power lies with those that show up. The showing up is what matters. And that is why the community independent movement offers me such encouragement. They work - they do real things with real people in real life.
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Simon Holmes à Court: Dutton’s ‘localised Trumpian tactics to Australian tastebuds’
The Sydney Morning Herald, 10th Nov 2024
Nicolette Boele did incredibly well at the last election – the biggest swing against a sitting Liberal. It’s been a few months since we polled her, but it was incredibly encouraging. She's an odds-on favourite.
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Nicolette Boele: Proposed campaign finance changes are disingenuous and disrespectful
The New Daily, 6th Oct 2024
I wholeheartedly support campaign finance reform. The power of entrenched interests over the major parties goes a long way to explaining why we have failed to deal with climate change, why we have an intractable housing crisis, why we have failed to deal with social media, and why we seem incapable of designing and implementing policies that look to the long term.
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A house divided
A Capital Brief, 4th Oct 2024
With Labor's latest housing policy stuck in the Senate, how would the crossbench treat the issue if given the balance of power after the election?
While Albanese eventually declared he has “no plans” to make changes, a hung parliament, which is a growing likelihood, may eventually give him no choice. As Julia Gillard discovered, even ironclad guarantees can evaporate as prime ministers cobble together 76 lower house votes.
So where would the crossbench push on housing and tax reform if given the balance of power?
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Bradfield teal candidate wouldn't make way for seatless Tink
Capital Brief, 14th Sept 2024
Boele secured a bigger swing than any of the 23 candidates backed by Climate 200, cutting Fletcher's margin in Bradfield to just 4.2%. Analysts believe the redistribution has made the seat even more marginal, cutting Fletcher's lead to roughly 2.3%.
Residents in Bradfield consistently tell Nicolette that the major parties are letting them down, and they want better representation in Canberra.
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We Haven’t Gone Away
The Post, 1st July 2024
Nicolette Boele continues to deeply engage with the Bradfield community, listening attentively to their concerns and advocating for their interests. Her campaign, marked by a historic electoral shift in Bradfield, reflects a growing desire for change among residents who feel underserved by traditional political representations.
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The forces behind Australia’s teal independents
The Saturday Paper, 22nd June 2024
If Paul Fletcher had been more tactful to Nicolette Boele a few years ago, his political future might be a lot more secure today. Thanks to his party’s nuclear policy, summarised by Boele as “too late, too expensive and too dangerous”, he faces a cashed-up opponent with a growing army of volunteers.
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Allen among potential challengers as redraw kicks off jockeying for seats
Sydney Morning Herald, 17th June 2024
The Australian Electoral Commission’s draft seat boundaries have given more certainty to party officials about the territories in which the next election, due by May 2025, will be fought, prompting a hardening of plans among political aspirants from all sides… Teal sources also not permitted to speak on the record said the 2022 Climate 200-backed candidate Nicolette Boele was keen to run again in Bradfield.
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Teal-held North Sydney seat faces the chop amid AEC shake-up
The Australian, 14th June 2024
The redistribution of North Sydney’s voters … would likely turn Liberal-held Bradfield into a close contest between incumbent Paul Fletcher and a Climate 200-backed independent candidate. Senior Liberal sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that although Bradfield became “harder” for the party, it was not unexpected.
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Teals lose North Sydney in NSW shake-up, Bennelong turns Liberal
Financial Review, 14th June 2024
Under the boundary changes, Mr Fletcher has become more prone to a challenge by a teal candidate with his margin cut from 4.2 per cent to 2.5 per cent according to tallyroom.com.
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Climate shuffles forward as a major election priority
Newcastle Herald, 25th May 2024
Australians could be in for another election fought on climate and how the country reaches net-zero as parties hint at policies and strategies a year out from polling day. In 2022, Liberal Paul Fletcher copped a more than 15 per cent swing against him in Bradfield and only held onto the seat by about four per cent after being challenged by conservationist Nicolette Boele.
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The narratives cloaking ‘weak’ Albanese and ‘nasty’ Dutton are setting like cement
Sydney Morning Herald, 2nd May 2024
In 2022, Paul Fletcher suffered a 15.28 per cent drop in his primary vote after a challenge from unknown independent Nicolette Boele. Fletcher held on… (but polling now shows that) after preferences, and without the benefit of a full-on campaign, Boele wins with 53 per cent to Fletcher’s 47 per cent.
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