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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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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Part 6 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

June 2, 2016

Ongoing coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016.

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Part 5 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

May 28, 2016

Covering the Australian election campaign for 2016.

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Part 3 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

May 18, 2016

Rolling coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016. Table of contents Jump to comments section. Mathias knew nothing. What Mitch knew. Send in the cops. Medicare thaw. They took our jobs and growth. . (May 22, 2016) Day 15 – Mathias knew nothing Senator Mathias Cormann didn’t know about the raids Senator Mathias Cormann has […]

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Pt 1 – Australian election blog 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

May 8, 2016

Blog along as we cover the long Australian election campaign for 2016. Table of contents Jump to comments section. Mal’s Panama Papers. Saving Albo. Pies and Toast. Battleground Queensland. To the Governor General. . (May 12, 2016) Day 5 – Mal’s Panama Papers Siberian gold mines and Mossack Fonseca Elise Worthington reported, “Prime Minister Malcolm […]

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Australian Defence Forces poorly prepared for #Climate change reports @takvera

September 8, 2015

Rob Sturrock and Dr Peter Ferguson give some hard truths about the security implications of climate change now and in the near future for Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. In their June 2015 report they claim that climate change is the threat equivalent to a hundred years war, which Australia and the Australian Defence Forces […]

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Lest we object: @burgewords comments on #AnzacDay #Anzac100

April 21, 2015

This Anzac centenary, it’s probable we will not hear the words ‘conscientious objector’ uttered much in the mainstream coverage. BURIED not far beneath the commemoration of the Anzac Day centenary is a silence into which few voices will respectfully speak. I join those few not to disrespect the First World War fallen and those who remember […]

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Ethics, morality and the war on ISIS: @richardsheggie comments

September 26, 2014

War against ISIS Young (and not so young) people are tired of the almost perpetual state of war that has that emerged since World War II. With US and Australian military intervention now commencing in Iraq and Syria, we are at war yet again in the Middle East. The target is the rapidly growing “caliphate” […]

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Soldiers’ lot a sorry Sir-vice, says ex-Digger Jim Duffield

March 29, 2014

[clear] James Brown, in his excellent book Anzac’s long shadow: the cost of our national obsession, makes the observation that “commemorating soldiers is not like connecting with them”, which is a point mostly appreciated by soldiers and service personnel. Nonetheless, it is more than moot, given that our national broadcaster has no defence and national […]

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