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We’re at war, Assange is on the front line: @CharliCaruso #AusVotes #podcast

April 12, 2019

This podcast has no interviews, it just comes straight from the heart. A heart that is a little bruised and battered from what feels like a persistent and blatant attack on our freedom and our rights. Fellow Australian Julian Assange was arrested yesterday by British officers and now faces a very real threat of extradition […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #Columns, #freespeech, #SmashingAvocado, AABill, ABC, Charlie Caruso, Corruption, Democracy, election2019, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, human rights, ICAC, Journalism, Media Reform, Podcast, Youth Vote

Chris Uhlmann fails to declare Phil de Fegely as auctioneer – @Qldaah #Mediawatch #auspol

November 26, 2016

An auctioneer interviewed on an ABC negative gearing news story was presented as an housing investor.

Filed Under: #auspol, #Qgame, ABC, David Marler, Economy, Fact-checking, Front Page, Journalism Tagged With: #auspol, ABC, Australia, Chris Uhlmann, Mediawatch, negative gearing, Phil de Fegely, Scott Morrison

How @margokingston1 saw Hansonism in 2004

July 10, 2016

Intro: Extract of Still Not Happy, John: Defending our Democracy (Penguin 2007) Democracy v. the Beast Her appeal was simply that she represented something authentic in a culture of artefact. She was transparent in an era during which the political class have become expert at concealment. She was a still point in a culture […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #KingstonReports, Asylum Seekers, Front Page, Hansonism, Immigration, Journalism, MSM, Racism, Refugees Tagged With: Australians for Honest Politics, Coalition, conservative, Fear, Federal Election, John Howard, Kim Beazley, Liberal Party, One Nation, Paul Keating, Pauline Hanson, Peter Costello, Piers Akerman, Tim Dunlop, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones

Part 13 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

July 7, 2016

The final act in the Australian election campaign for 2016.

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #ausvotes2016, #Qgame, #qldvotes, ABC, Asylum Seekers, Australian Progressives, Budget, Campaign Financing, Climate Change, Clive Palmer, Corruption, David Marler, Defence Force, Democracy, Disability, Economy, Education, election2016, Environment, Fairfax, Federal Election, Freedom of Speech, Front Page, GST, Health, Ideology, Immigration, Journalism, Labor Party, Leadership, Liberal Party, Marriage Equality, Media Reform, Mental Health, MSM, NBN, NDIS, New South Wales, News, News Limited, Opinion, Paid Parental LEave, Palliative Care, Palmer United Party, Parliament, Population, Press Gallery, Queensland, Racism, Refugees, Research, Retirement, Sexual Abuse, State Politics, Supperannuation, The Arts, The Arts Party, The Greens, Transport, Victoria Tagged With: #auspol, Australia, australian election, Ausvotes, Barnaby Joyce, Bill Shorten, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Labor, Liberal Party, lucy turnbull, Malcolm Turnbull, nick xenophon

We need to talk about Pauline: @burgewords comments on #PaulineHanson

July 5, 2016

Like all political parties, One Nation sends mixed messages, and its followers are able to live with policy blind spots, just like other Australians. WITH no result on election night, it wasn’t too surprising when people came up to our market stall at Cleveland in South East Queensland on Sunday morning asking who’d won. We weren’t selling anything, […]