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The #AusVotes preference system or choosing sides when your team can’t make the Grand Final: @adropex stops #ShoutingAtTheTV and comments

March 16, 2019

The closest I have come to an election campaign was handing out How-to-Vote cards in the Victorian state election last year, but I must admit to being an interested observer of #Auspol since the 2013 federal election which saw a local independent unseat a major party incumbent in the hitherto safe Liberal seat of Indi. […]

Filed Under: #ActiveDemocracy, #auspol, #ausvotes, #Columns, #IndiVotes, #RecentlyPopular, Democracy, election2019, Federal Election, Front Page, Indi, Lesley Howard, NoFibs Tagged With: #auspol, #IndiVotes, Ausvotes, Ausvotes2019, Democracy

The @NoFibs #IndependentsDay Twitter mission at #ausvotes: @margokingston1 comments

February 24, 2019

The way I see it, every safe Coalition seat must be in play in the sense that quality indies ask tough questions incumbents are forced to answer. That requires courageous indies & committed, creative citizens because a weakened local media can’t do it. Ready to play? #ausvotes — Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) February 22, 2019 Hi. […]

Filed Under: #ActiveDemocracy, #auspol, #ausvotes, #ausvotes2016, #CanningVotes, #ClimateElection, #Columns, #CowperVotes, #CurtinVotes, #FarrerVotes, #HumeVotes, #IndependentsDay, #IndiStory, #IndiVotes, #KingstonReports, #KooyongVotes, #LyneVotes, #MackellarVotes, #MalleeVotes, #MayoVotes, #NewEnglandVotes, #NichollsVotes, #Qgame, #RecentlyPopular, #SenateVotes, #SmashingAvocado, #TheReefReport, #ViewFromTheCrossbench, #WarringahVotes, #WentworthVotes, Asylum Seekers, Climate Change, election2019, Front Page, ICAC, Indi, Margo Kingston, MargoFrontPagePin, NoFibs, Refugees Tagged With: #ausvotes. #cowpervotes, #IndiVotes, #Kooyongvotes, #MackellerVotes, #malleevotes, #mayovotes, #NewEnglandVotes, #WarringahVotes, #wentworthvotes

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

June 27, 2016

Ongoing coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016.

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #ausvotes2016, #PeoplesClimate, #Qgame, #qldvotes, 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, Front Page, GST, Health, Ideology, Immigration, Industrial Relations, Journalism, Labor Party, Leadership, Liberal Party, Marriage Equality, Media Reform, Mental Health, Misogyny, MSM, Muslims, NBN, NDIS, New South Wales, News Limited, NoFibs, Paid Parental LEave, Palliative Care, Palmer United Party, Parliament, Population, Press Gallery, Queensland, Racism, Refugees, Research, Retirement, Rorting, State Politics, Supperannuation, Telecommunications, The Arts, The Arts Party, The Greens, Transport, Urban Planning, Victoria, Young Liberals, Youth Vote Tagged With: #auspol, Australia, australian election, Ausvotes, Barnaby Joyce, Bill Shorten, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Labor, Liberal Party, lucy turnbull, Malcolm Turnbull, nick xenophon

Part 4 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

May 23, 2016

Covering the Australian election campaign for 2016. Table of contents Jump to comments section. Politics on the Reef. Bumbling Barnaby. Carping on with Barnaby. Spendometers and black hole politics. Donations and the Mob. . (May 27, 2016) Day 20 – Politics on the Reef Australia bleached from UNESCO report John Englart reported, “A UNESCO report identifies World Heritage […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #ausvotes2016, #Qgame, #qldvotes, 60 Minutes, ABC, Asylum Seekers, Australian Progressives, Budget, Campaign Financing, Climate Change, Clive Palmer, Corruption, David Marler, Democracy, Economy, Education, election2016, Environment, Fact-checking, Fairfax, Federal Election, Freedom of the Press, Front Page, GST, Health, Ideology, Immigration, Journalism, Labor Party, Leadership, Liberal Party, Marriage Equality, Media Reform, Mental Health, Misogyny, MSM, NDIS, New South Wales, News Limited, NoFibs, Paid Parental LEave, Palliative Care, Palmer United Party, Parliament, Population, Press Gallery, Queensland, Racism, Refugees, Research, Retirement, State Politics, Supperannuation, 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

A citizen journalist begins to find her voice… @JanB_QLD reflects – PART 1 NoFibs and The Westender

February 23, 2015

Starting Out Reading good journalism is a vital part of my life, and like many I am fearful for its future. Now, having participated in citizen journalism projects over the past 18 months, I have somehow inadvertently inserted myself into the debate about whether citizen journalism threatens or complements professional journalism. I came to citizen […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #GriffithVotes, #MediaMargo, Jan Bowman, Journalism, Journalism Practice, NoFibs Tagged With: ABC 612, Margo Kingston, Mike Burge

Are we mitigating the #health risk of worsening #heatwaves due to climate change? asks @takvera

October 29, 2014

Much of inland Australia including large parts of NSW, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria are experiencing the first heatwave of summer in October, a month before the official start of the season. Temperature records tumbled, including the warmest October day on record with the national average maximum of 36.39 degrees Celsius on 25 […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ClimateAction, #ClimateElection, #Columns, Citizen Journalists, Climate Change, Front Page, Health, Issues, John Englart, NoFibs Tagged With: climate change, heatwaves, Moreland Council, Victoria

There is an i in Team No Fibs: co-publisher @geeksrulz tells his #NoFibs story #MediaMargo

September 6, 2014

[ts_fab authorid=”2″ tabs=”bio,twitter,custom”] This is the second in a new No Fibs series edited by Margo under her collaborative thesis. The first piece was by Michael Burge … and the next one will be by Tim Dunlop. The Fifth Estate might be new kid on the block, but it already packs a mighty punch above its weight. Everyone […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #KingstonReports, #MediaMargo, Activism, AFHP, Fifth Estate, Front Page, Journalism, NoFibs, Social Media, Tony The Geek Tagged With: #MediaMargo, Andrew Elder, by-election, Cathy McGowan, Citizen Journalist, Election Coverage, Federal Election, Fifth Estate, Guinevere Hall, Jane Cattermole, Mainstream Media, Margo Kingston, MSM, Politics, Seat Report, Social Media, Storify, technology, Tim Dunlop, Twitter, Voice for Indi, Webdiary, WordPress

Voyage to the new news world: @burgewords #CreatingWaves on online media

August 9, 2014

Margo Kingston asked me to kick-off a new series on No Fibs about the experiences of citizen journalists working with professional journalists in online media. Here is my response. A WEEK after the 2013 federal election I was driving to my casual sub-editing job on a Fairfax weekly newspaper when I let a brilliant photo opportunity go. […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #CreatingWaves, #MediaMargo, Bowman, Creating Waves, Fairfax, Front Page, Marriage Equality, Michael Burge, NoFibs, The Arts Tagged With: #CreatingWaves, Amanda Bishop, Andrew Laming, Bayside Bulletin, Bowman, Citizen Journalism, DIBP, Facebook, Fairfax Media, Indi, Jan Bowman, Mainstream Media, march in march, Margo Kingston, Mia Freedman, Redland City, site statistics, Sophie Mirabella, sub-editing, the arts, Tony Yegles, Twitter, WordPress

A Murdoch-free household is a galaxy too far: @burgewords #CreatingWaves on #NewsCorp

July 12, 2014

NEWS sites are getting harder to access for free of late. Paywalls are up and apparently profitable for News Corp and Fairfax. Crikey had one for years and recently Wendy Harmer’s flagship site The Hoopla shut the gate on free reads with its 34 cent per day subscription. Media-hungry online consumers are faced with a choice about […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #CreatingWaves, Citizen Journalists, Creating Waves, Fairfax, Front Page, Michael Burge, News Limited, NoFibs, Queensland, Social Media, The Arts Tagged With: 21st Century Fox, C.S. Lewis, Crikey, Donna Hay, Fairfax, HarperCollins, J.R.R. Tolkien, Janet Frame, News Corp, News Limited, Paywalls, Rupert Murdoch, Star Wars, The Hoopla, Wendy Harmer

No Fibs tribute to Indi democracy by @geeksrulz

September 12, 2013

No Fibs Indi campaign archive

Filed Under: #auspol, #IndiVotes, Democracy, election2013, Federal Election, Front Page, Indi, NoFibs Tagged With: #IndiVotes, Citizen Journalism, No Fibs