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An #AusVotes first timer talks #YouthForFuture and #ActiveDemocracy: @adropex reports

May 2, 2019

Tom is 19 and a first-time federal election voter. After completing school in 2017 he worked for a year doing whatever came his way. He is now at university, studying media and communications in the politics stream, and working nights on weekends at a pub. He will vote in the inner metropolitan seat of Macnamara, […]

Filed Under: #ActiveDemocracy, #ausvotes, #ClimateAction, #Columns, #ReefNotCoal, #VicVotes, #YouthForFuture, Authors, Climate Change, Democracy, election2019, Energy, Environment, Federal Election, Front Page, Issues, Lesley Howard, Youth Vote

Long walk to Canberra @ExtremelyMy’s call for #AusVotes #ClimateAction: @jansant reports on #IndiVotes

April 30, 2019

Melbourne man Shannon Loughnane is walking from Melbourne to Canberra on My Extremely Long Walk For Climate Action to draw attention to the dangers of not taking meaningful action against climate change. No Fibs caught up with him at Violet Town in #IndiVotes a week after his walk began. Loughnane said he’s walking between 10 […]

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Conservation and tourism join forces to #VoteForTheReef: @Jackthelad1947 #AusVotes #TheReefReport

April 23, 2019

Around 150 businesses and tourism operators in Far North Queensland are joining Australia’s peak marine conservation group to call on all parties in the federal election to protect the Great Barrier Reef from the impacts of climate change. The group, which includes 20 reef tourism operators and businesses from hospitality and retail to law and […]

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Indie @AdamBlakester challenges @Barnaby_Joyce to face voters: @jansant reports on #Watergate

April 22, 2019

Former Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Barnaby Joyce has been called to face the public — particularly his constituents in the NSW rural electorate of New England — over a staggering record payment of $79 million for water buy-backs in 2017. Independent candidate for New England Adam Blakester spoke to No Fibs and said […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #ausvotes2016, #ClimateAction, #NewEnglandVotes, #Watergate, election2019, Front Page, Wayne Jansson

Bob Brown back on campaign trail to #StopAdani: @jansant #Auspol #ClimateElection #podcast

April 21, 2019

Former federal Greens leader Bob Brown is back on the campaign trail on the #StopAdani Convoy heading up the east coast of Australia. Brown spoke to No Fibs about the convoy at Albury-Wodonga, where around 200-300 people gathered early on Easter Friday to join the convoy and show their support. Show your support or join […]

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#FarrerVotes farmers outraged over water ‘piracy’: @jansant reports on #Watergate

April 20, 2019

Farmers are “angry” over allegations aired on The Project that record prices were paid by former Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Barnaby Joyce under the buy-back scheme to a company founded by current Energy Minister Angus Taylor. No Fibs spoke with Independent candidate for the NSW rural electorate of Farrer, Kevin Mack (@Mack4Farrer), who […]

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Feds failing to act on river reports: @kateauty #StopPrayingForRain #ClimateAction analysis

April 18, 2019

The river is our memory, we walk along it and remember our history and our ancestors by looking at the marks and places. Uncle Badger Bates, Barkandji elder, with Katherine McBride. Submission to AAS Report on Menindee Fish Kills If you only watch the mass media you could still miss some big stories about the […]

Filed Under: #ClimateAction, #Columns, #IndependentsDay, #StopPrayingForRain, #Watergate, election2019, Front Page, Kate Auty

Outshining detractors and dirty tricks: @MilesProust reports from @RobOakeshott1 #CowperVotes campaign

April 17, 2019

High-profile independent candidate for the NSW electorate of Cowper Rob Oakeshott recently released his commitment to climate change action at the small Macleay village of Gladstone. His two-page document included a promise to vote against any new coal or gas power stations, calling out dirty money used for lobbying and to support policies that prioritise […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #CampaignInsiders, #ClimateAction, #CowperVotes, election2019, Front Page, Miles Proust

On the road with Rob Oakeshott: @margokingston1 #CowperVotes #podcast

April 15, 2019

Rob Oakeshott Independent for Cowper chats with Margo Kingston live on the election trail, as noted by Rob, Margo is the first journalist in twenty years to embed themselves in his campaign.

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Rural #IndiVotes says end the blame game for #ClimateElection: @kateauty #StopPrayingForRain

April 12, 2019

For those who still think our rural community of Indi is asleep on a slow train to a washed-out railway bridge, I suggest that the activity in the streets and halls all over the place should be arresting. In the main shopping strip of Euroa, on Tuesday evening this week, cattle farmers, woolgrowers, lamb producers, […]

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