View Larger Map This @NoFibs Electoral Map is kindly provided by Paul Davis Seat Profile by Margaret O’Connor 21 June 2013 For someone who these days would be sneered at by certain columnists as being a café-latte and chardonnay drinking member of the chattering classes, my background sure doesn’t fit the template. I grew up on […]
A week’s public debate on women: Sarah Capper review
June 20, 2013
by Sarah Capper 20 June 2013 A week in the life of an Australian woman, courtesy of public discourse, the news and media commentary. Tuesday 11 June Catch the late news. The first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard has given a speech to a fundraising group in Sydney called ‘Women for Gillard’ in which she warns of […]
Ray Hadley stalks @OakeyMP
June 20, 2013
Rob Oakeshott by Noelle Kebby 20 June 2013 Rob Oakeshott is the Federal Member for Lyne, an Independent. Ray Hadley is a radio broadcaster at Macquarie Network 2GB. The two men have never met. Rob Oakeshott has lived in Port Macquarie for 20 years, his wife was brought up in and attended school in Port Macquarie […]
Judi Moylan’s valedictory speech and her history of Australia’s boat people policy
June 19, 2013
The Hon Judi Moylan MP June 2013 How does one summarize 20 years in Parliament whilst doing justice to all those who have been so pivotal to that service? I have been deeply touched by the extraordinary generosity at every turn by a host of people too numerous to name individually. No member could have […]
RuddWatch: @JanBowQLD sets the scene in Griffith
June 19, 2013
View Larger Map This @NoFibs Electoral Map is kindly provided by Paul Davis Seat profile by Jan Bowman 19 June 2013 From the well-to-do apartment blocks of Kangaroo Point and the entertainment and culture hub of South Brisbane to the tin and timber Queenslanders of East Brisbane, Coorparoo and Greenslopes, Griffith is a diverse inner […]
Roxon reflections
June 19, 2013
by Nicola Roxon 18 June 2013 Hansard source On indulgence—I intend to start this speech rather than finish it with my personal thanks, because I think they are the easy ones to miss at the end in a rush. All that we as politicians can achieve for the community fundamentally relies on a lot of […]
Confessions of Twitter sceptic @SallyYmelbourne
June 18, 2013
By Sally Young I signed up to Twitter last year but, in the field describing myself, typed in ‘Twitter sceptic’. I signed up for a specific reason: I wanted to do a class experiment where my politics students could tweet me questions during a lecture I was giving on politics and new media. The […]
Assange one of many fresh new voices striving to be heard this election
June 18, 2013
by Greg Barns June 17, 2013 According to both UMR and Morgan support for the WikiLeaks Party, and its Victorian Senate candidate Julian Assange, is running at over 20 percent Australia wide. Whether that support translates into Senate seats in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia where the Party is fielding candidates depends on […]
Hills alive with sounds of Libs planning government: @AlisonParkes Mitchell report
June 18, 2013
View Larger Map This @NoFibs Electoral Map is kindly provided by Paul Davis Mitchell Seat profile by Alison Parkes Mitchell hills alive with sounds of Liberal music: seat report by @AlisonParkes Mitchell is in Sydney’s outer metropolitan North West. Once rural and semi rural, it is experiencing the rapid development of subdivisions, dormitory suburbs and […]
#Mediawatch honest broker for silent, censored Piers’ ABC
June 18, 2013
The art of deflecting blame David Koch: And is Tim Gay? Howard Sattler: He must be gay, he’s a hair dresser… David Koch: Julia Gillard quizzed about her partner’s sexuality… — Channel Seven, Sunrise, 14th June, 2013 That’s how Kochie promo’d it on Seven’s Sunrise: “Is Tim Gay?” Not, “Shock jock madness.” Welcome to Media […]
