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 […]

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An #AusVotes first timer talks #YouthForFuture and #ActiveDemocracy: @adropex reports

May 2, 2019

Tom is 19 and a first-time federal election voter. After completing school in 2017 he worked for a year doing whatever came his way. He is now at university, studying media and communications in the politics stream, and working nights on weekends at a pub. He will vote in the inner metropolitan seat of Macnamara, […]

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Young voices no longer waiting to be heard: @StorerDylan comments on #YouthForFuture

April 25, 2019

Young people are angry, that’s our job. For decades, people my age have been shaking up the political establishment and making the world a better place. The anti-Vietnam War protests of the Sixties and Seventies, the Australian Freedom Ride which saw a bus packed with university students travel through and expose a racially segregated Australia, […]

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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 […]

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Part 11 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

June 27, 2016

Ongoing coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016.

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2016 Election Scorecards for #Ausvotes to help you decide: Curated by @takvera

June 26, 2016

Still undecided after several weeks of the election campaign? Are you confused on policies? Do you have a pet issue that may influence your vote? I might have just the election issue scorecard to help you decide. I have always been more interested in party policies than voting for the personality of a candidate or […]

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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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#ausvotes #kidsdebate on climate, internships, invasion and treaty, gender pay gap – @takvera

June 3, 2016

Some probing questions asked by youth reporters live with Barnaby Joyce Nationals Member for New England, Greens Senator Larissa Waters and Labor’s Amanda Rishworth MP at a debate organised by Crinkling News, a new weekly newspaper for youth in Australia Our youth are the next generation of voters and their concerns need to be listened […]

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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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