Kate McBride is a fifth-generation pastoralist and the daughter of Rob McBride, owner of Tolarno Station (@TolarnoStation) at Menindee in Western NSW. Together with her father she brought the ecological disaster unfolding on the Darling River to the world’s attention with a viral video of the Menindee fish kill. Kate spoke to Wayne Jansson (@Jansant) […]
Kate McBride calls for change in river country: @Jansant #FarrerVotes #Watergate #podcast
May 15, 2019
#AusVotes Day 35 – ‘Class warfare’ slogan deployed: @qldaah #qldpol
May 15, 2019
May 15, 2019 – Table of contents Kerri-Anne Kennerley explodes Turning the #AusVotes grassroots turquoise Bill Shorten campaigns in Perth against wages theft Scott Morrison campaigns in Corangamite on housing Dark clouds and silver linings, the ICAN climate action vision ‘Class warfare’ slogan deployed The guerrilla campaign to get Jim Molan over the line . […]
Jeremy Miller is running to win Lyne: @margokingston1 #LyneVotes #podcast
May 15, 2019
In the latest episode of the No Fibs podcast Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) meets Jeremy Miller (@JeremyforLyne) in person to catch up on how his campaign as an Independent candidate for Lyne has progressed. Recorded live at the Wauchope Country Club, Jeremy explains that he is running to win, largely inspired by former Indi Independent Cathy […]
An #AusVotes student and first time voter in #HigginsVotes: @adropex reports #ActiveDemocracy #YouthForFuture
May 14, 2019
Imi is 18 and a first-time federal election voter. She is currently completing Year 12 and is studying Australian Politics for VCE. She will be voting in the inner metropolitan seat of Higgins, in Melbourne. Imi has kindly agreed to answer some questions about the upcoming federal election. With no assumptions as to her knowledge […]
Zali Steggall on disrupting the status quo: @margokingston1 #WarringahVotes #podcast
May 14, 2019
In the last few days of the campaign, Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) catches up with Zali Steggall (@zalisteggall) the Independent taking on the seat of Warringah currently held by former prime minister Tony Abbott. Full transcript Margo Kingston: Hello, Margo Kingston here, I’m in Cowper where Rob Oakeshott is being fired on with very heavy gunfire, […]
Nat senator sees ‘great hoax’ in #ClimateAction: @Jansant reports on @senbmckenzie #IndiVotes
May 14, 2019
At pre-poll in Wangaratta on Saturday, Senator Bridget McKenzie refused to provide the cost to our economy of not taking swift and decisive action against climate change. I asked McKenzie what the economic cost of not taking fast action against climate was:- Bridget McKenzie (BM): Our country set very ambitious emission targets.No Fibs (Me): But […]
Turning the #AusVotes grassroots turquoise: @KateZMedia #WarringahVotes gallery
May 14, 2019
It’s been an amazing couple of months working on Zali Steggall’s election campaign. One week to go and there’s still lots of positivity, enthusiasm and a desire for positive change within the community. I have been with the campaign since just after Zali launched and I have been most impressed by her honesty, integrity, desire […]
#AusVotes Day 34 – Keating attacks ‘mean’ Dutton: @qldaah #qldpol
May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019 – Table of contents ‘Business as usual’ killing communities: Border Doctors’ letter to Indi and Farrer Peter Dutton “mean spirited”, says Paul Keating A Labor government would make a new submission to FWC on increasing wages Scott Morrison campaigns in the marginal seat of Boothby CSIRO was only given hours to approve […]
Dark clouds and silver linings, the ICAN #ClimateAction vision: @adropex reports #ActiveDemocracy
May 13, 2019
Distinctive campaign battle lines were defined long before Scott Morrison’s belated April 11 announcement that we would be going to the polls on May 18. For months the Coalition had insisted the election was going to be about the economy, security and putting locals first, “to keep our economy strong, to keep Australians safe and […]
#AusVotes Day 33 – News Corp attack in Gladstone: @qldaah #qldpol
May 13, 2019
May 13, 2019 – Table of contents Liberal candidate Steve Martin won’t come clean on dirty coal, collusion Qld UAP senate candidate Yodie Batzke may not be whom she says she is Attempted arson attack on Labor’s Belinda Hassan in Dawson Ray Kingston closes in on the nation’s safest seat Scott Morrison campaigns on housing […]
