{"id":41154,"date":"2019-03-27T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=41154"},"modified":"2022-05-02T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T02:24:08","slug":"adam-blakester-taking-on-barnaby-joyce-charlicaruso-newenglandvotes-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/adam-blakester-taking-on-barnaby-joyce-charlicaruso-newenglandvotes-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Blakester taking on Barnaby Joyce: @CharliCaruso #NewEnglandVotes #podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>@CharliCaruso&#8217;s interview with New England Independent candidate <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"@adamblakester (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamblakester\" target=\"_blank\">@adamblakester<\/a>, in which the conversation touched on the major issues and concerns facing Barnaby Joyce&#8217;s electorate, New England, NSW. Charlie and Adam explored the greater state of political dysfunction in Australia, the challenges and disadvantages Independents face when campaigning against the major parties, and why despite the difficulties, being an Independent representative for the electorate is a worthwhile pursuit in the name of democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>There&#8217;s such dysfunction in the Federal Parliament and particularly in New England where our incumbent member is Barnaby Joyce, that I felt now was the time to engage with politics directly for the first time in my life and my career<\/p><cite>Adam Blakester<br \/><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><p>&#8220;The state of affairs at the moment is so dire and so concerning that I felt now was the time to put myself forward as a candidate&#8221;<\/p><cite>Adam Blakester<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Part of the dysfunction, in my view, of political and public governance in Australia is the bias and conflicts of interests that are playing out and rather than having an Australian parliament which is working in the best interests of the country and the various electorates that make up the country, we have a parliament that is overwhelmingly dominated by party interests rather than relevant country interests.<\/p><cite>Adam Blakester<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more about Adam&#8217;s federal campaign <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"on his website. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adamblakester.vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">on his website.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4973\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-41154-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Interview_with_Adam_Blakester_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Interview_with_Adam_Blakester_mixdown.mp3\">https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Interview_with_Adam_Blakester_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Interview_with_Adam_Blakester_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/?powerpress_pinw=41154-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Interview_with_Adam_Blakester_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Interview_with_Adam_Blakester_mixdown.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@CharliCaruso interviews New England Independent Candidate @adamblakester and touched on the major issues and concerns facing Barnaby Joyce&#8217;s electorate, and the greater state of political dysfunction in Australia <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":41159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3434,2969,3387,3330,3329,3386,3394,3341,3342,62,3548,1469,66,585,3358],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Adam-Blakester.png?fit=800%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t0mw-aHM","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55097,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41154\/revisions\/55097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}