By Andrew Elder May 22, 2013 Margo: After the recent George ‘free speech’ Brandis speech I asked (begged) @awelder to write me a piece on the civil liberties credentials of the man who would be Attorney General under an Abbott Government. This is Andrew’s first piece for @NoFibs. Thank you. There is a story of […]
Trying for Pyne and Entsch accountability on @MRowlandMP baby leave
May 21, 2013
By Margo Kingston May 21, 2013 @margokingston1 I'm still waiting for the public reprimand of Pyne & Entsch for their lies to Australian public & inappropriate behaviour? — Hi I'm Noely of Qld (@YaThinkN) May 20, 2013 I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about the Coalition’s May 16 response to the revelation of its decision […]
The Opposition #NDIS no show. A rant from the heart by @R_Chirgwin
May 13, 2013
Storify by The Geek Wed, May 16 2013 People’s obligation in the first instance is to be in this Parliament. — Warren Entsch: The House of Representatives as PM @juliagillard introduces legislation to cover some of the costs of DisabilityCare twitter.com/mearesy/status… — andrew meares (@mearesy) May 15, 2013 R_Chirgwin@R_Chirgwin The LNP’s absence in Parliament in the […]
Bolt no free speech champion, just another rhetor*
May 11, 2013
By Thomas Connelly May 11, 2013 Margo: I read with incredulity Andrew Bolt’s begging letter to citizens to donate to the IPA’s fund to defend free speech http://support.ipa.org.au/. IPA donors Murdoch and Gina could finance a free speech fund with their spare change. This appeal is about something else, changing the very meaning of free […]
The Liberal Party’s war on freedoms: My reply to Brandis
May 10, 2013
By Margo Kingston May 10, 2013 ‘But at least the debates about freedom of speech and freedom of the press, which we have seen in the past couple of years, have been a sharp reminder to the Liberal Party of its historic mission. For in the freedom wars, there has been only one party which has […]
The Skull Beneath the Skin
May 10, 2013
By Margo Kingston 10 May 2013 In his Cry, Freedom speech this week, Shadow Attorney General George Brandis said this: ‘But at least the debates about freedom of speech and freedom of the press, which we have seen in the past couple of years, have been a sharp reminder to the Liberal Party of its historic […]
Freedom Wars: The George Brandis speech
May 9, 2013
ABC Lateline Interview May 7, 2013 Margo: Well here it is, the Brandis speech on free speech he calls the Freedom Wars. It is not online, so Barry Tucker rang the Brandis office and obtained a copy. Thank you @btckr. I have a feeling I’ll want to write a response soon – my boiling anger at his @Lateline […]
Missing an IPA transparency moment
May 6, 2013
Jon Faine’s Friday Wrap. with John Roskam from the IPA and Sally Warhaft from the Wheeler Centre. Broadcast Friday 26 April 2013. FAINE: I’d like a pet plebiscite on disclosing the funding sources of the IPA says Belinda in McLeod. ROSKAM: We’ll do a deal Belinda, we’ll disclose our sources one we know how much Jon Faine […]
Using Thatcher’s death to rewrite history, past and present
April 18, 2013
By Sarah Capper, Sheilas Editor Source: Sheilas 18 April 2013 When Germaine Greer penned a piece on the late “crocodile hunter” Steve Irwin for the Guardian shortly after his death from a stingray puncture, it was followed by howls of protest from all parts of the globe. Greer ended her ‘barbed’ take on the much-loved ‘Aussie […]
My people’s petition for Abbott to reveal his other IPA policies
April 15, 2013
By Tom Cummings (@cyenne40) April 15, 2013 The Australian Labor Party is often accused of being at the beck and call of the unions. Of course there is a decent element of truth in this, in so far as they both tend to focus on workers rather than corporations, and the historical links between Australia’s unions and […]
