Deputy PM @Barnaby_Joyce parachutes Latham into #IndiVotes: @jansant reports

June 20, 2016

As expected, #Indivotes got a whole lot more interesting with pre-polling, the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce (@Barnaby_Joyce) even parachuted Mark Latham into the marginal seat. On the Sunday before pre-polling, Cathy McGowan MP (@IndigoCathy), Marty Corboy (@martycorboynats) and former Nationals member for Murray Valley Ken Jasper, put on a very public display of (and […]

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Part 9 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

June 17, 2016

Ongoing coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016.

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Notes from London: Meet our new columnist @NHadjimichael

June 15, 2016

Living in London, Aussie born and bred no longer the tourist. That means so much to most Aussie travellers from the days of Clive James, Barry Humphries or Barry Crocker. Having relocated from sunny cosmopolitan Sydney (the leafy Liberal heartland north of the Bridge) because the boss got the job (I’m like Prince Phillip!) I […]

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#ReefElection: Bandaids for an unmitigated reef catastrophe reports @takvera #ausvotes

June 14, 2016

An election promise by the Prime Minister to divert $1 billion in Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) funding to improve reef catchment water quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions has been soundly criticised as legally problematic, inefficient and far below the funding scientists say is required to Save the Reef. As they say, the ‘devil […]

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Jasper coaches @martycorboynats to stomping #Indivotes victory over @IndigoCathy: @jansant reports

June 13, 2016

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Part 8 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

June 12, 2016

Ongoing coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016.

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The Parakeelia files: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

June 12, 2016

The Liberal Party’s Parakeelia laundering scheme

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Storms, floods and avoiding the dots on #climate in #ausvotes – @takvera

June 9, 2016

During a tour of flood affected areas in Tasmania on Thursday 9 June, the Prime Minister was asked a question (See SMH report) relating to extreme weather events and climate change: Journalist: “Prime Minister, it is widely accepted in the scientific community and among insurers and infrastructure companies that climate change will affect the predictability, […]

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Taking the 100pc #renewables message to @TurnbullMalcolm in Wentworth for #ausvotes – @takvera

June 9, 2016

The Prime Minister’s electorate of Wentworth in Sydney played host to a Solar Citizens forum at Paddington Town Hall: the Wentworth 100 percent renewables forum. Former MP for Wentworth John Hewson turned up and gave the keynote address. Wentworth is one of the wealthiest electorates in Australia, but it also has the second lowest uptake […]

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Part 7 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

June 7, 2016

Ongoing coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016.

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