Storify by The Geek Thu, Jan 16 2014 20:45:39 Margo’s live twitter report from #leardblockade Day 2 – I see action Add to story or collection Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest Share on Google+ Share on Linkedin Share by email Moonset #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/c3tJi2pC1l margo kingston@margokingston1 · Thu, Jan 16 2014 11:42:27 […]
Live tweet report by Margo Kingston from the #leardblockade
January 16, 2014
Storify by The Geek Thu, Jan 16 2014 02:58:57 Live tweet report by Margo Kingston from the #leardblockade Add to story or collection Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on Linkedin Share by email MCCC@MaulesCreek Coal-fired farce: @MaulesCreek protesters ordered to leave state forest http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/2023536/coal-fired-farce-maules-creek-protesters-ordered-to-leave-state-forest/ … via @The_NDL #leardblockade @margokingston1 · Tue, […]
Can Leard Forest be saved? @georgefwoods reports on #leardblockade
January 16, 2014
By Georgina Woods @georgefwood Spokesperson for the Leard Forest Alliance 16 January 2014 The battle erupting this week over the Maules Creek coal project and the Leard State Forest is the focal point for major conflicts and questions facing Australia as the age of coal comes to an end, and the age of climate change […]
Citizens Against Rorting of Entitlements (CARE) Policy Response Survey, by @budget_aus
November 1, 2013
By Rosie Williams 1 November 2013 Source: InfoAus What do you, I and US Secretary of State John Kerry have in common? We are all protagonists of grassroots activism. You can’t have democracy without the demos and I heard John Kerry tell of the grassroots activism leading to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency this […]
Progress 2013 Conference to plot political futures, by @Kevin_Rennie
October 23, 2013
By Kevin Rennie, 23 October, 2013 Tony Abbott wants us to repent. Well here’s my confession. I have sinned by: • chipping in for the Climate Council • signing GetUp! and Change.org petitions about asylum seekers, the Great Barrier Reef and Burger Off’s campaign against McDonald’s in Tecoma. • voting for @Albo and agitating for […]
Time for citizen action on MP travel scams: @budget_aus has a go
October 20, 2013
[clear] By Rosie Williams 20 October 2013 I have been working to improve Australia’s budget transparency for a year now. I built the first ever implementation of the entire federal budget as an online searchable database at BudgetAus. The database allows you to search across every agency and portfolio, providing a total of spending (with all forward years […]
Sal Kimber on singing the @voiceforindi song, and getting Paul Kelly’s OK
September 20, 2013
[clear] Sheila’s editor and No Fibs columnist Sarah Capper interviews Sal Kimber, who re-wrote and sang From Little Things Big Things Grow for Cathy McGowan’s campaign launch. Sarah was at the Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre where Sal performed on election night, during which swings going against the tide of the rest of the country increasingly showed […]
The intellectual grunt behind @Indigocathy Indi victory: @sarah_capper report
September 20, 2013
Image by No Fibs citizen journalist Wayne Jansson taken on election night, of Alana Johnson, Cathy McGowan and Mary Crooks.By Sarah Capper Sheila’s editor 20 September 2013 When Jeff Kennett lost the “unlosable” Victorian election in 1999, the Victorian Women’s Trust’s Mary Crooks wasn’t overly surprised. In the years leading up the state poll, in her […]
Margo’s Twitter reports from Indi – 7 and 8 September, 2013
September 9, 2013
Storify by The Geek Sun, Sep 08 2013 23:30:53 Margo’s twitter reports from Indi – 7 and 8 September, 2013 One of the most interesting seats in this election is without question Indi with sitting shadow frontbencher Sophie Mirabella. Margo joined the election buzz and reports on how grassroots politics is making a difference. Share […]
Latte-sipping city slicker @VanBadham gives thanks for rural independents and sees a new dawn for values in politics
August 27, 2013
By Van Badham August 27, 2013 The tactical employment of demeaning stereotypes has always been popular in the Australian political discourse. Just lump together some universally loathed behaviours – like vanity, self-indulgence or entitlement – dress them as communities you’re trying to discredit, and parade them like carnival villains. “Union thugs”, anybody? “Feminazis”? “People smugglers”? “Asylum […]
