Margo: Steve Jenkin and Kieran Cummings are regular contributors to No Fibs on the NBN. Here are their takes on its future under an Abbott Government. * *
Griffith Candidate Forum: @JanBowQLD reports
August 6, 2013
By Jan Bowman 6 August 2013 So this is what it feels like to live in the electorate of the sitting prime minister of Australia. We are just two days into the election campaign and Kevin Rudd has finally got the debate he has so long wanted – but with his LNP opponent in Griffith, […]
Will Driscoll be charged with lying to parliament?
April 21, 2013
By David Marler April 21, 2013 Source: BRISBANE, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman lost another seat in parliament this week with the resignation of Scott Driscoll from the LNP. The tally of MP’s quiting the LNP now stands at four with Newman’s 78 seat majority falling to 74. In addition, 3 Ministers have resigned over nepotism […]
Imagining an amazing innovative future with Labor’s NBN
April 14, 2013
By Stephen Neate April 14, 2013 Source: yathink.com.au We are living on acreage and there is nature all around, made more alive and real by the fact that it never seems to stop raining. It is so green and alive we can smell and hear life all around us. The stage is set for some spiritual […]
@NoFibs NBN policy articles curated by citizen journo @pascalg15
April 11, 2013
By Pascal Grosvenor April 11, 2013 With all the claims and counter claims going back and forth via Twitter or Facebook I’ve been getting frustrated,because there’s lots of incorrect facts and sometimes outright lies being perpetrated. People on both sides of the political debate have been guilty of this. My goal is to collate the articles […]
Coalition’s NBN plan to stop consumers taking control of media
April 9, 2013
By Kieran Cummings (@sortius) April 9th, 2013 The Coalition held its broadband policy launch at, wait for it, Murdoch’s Fox Sports, And the press secretary handed out copies of Murdoch’s Daily Telegraph instead of policy documents. Guess what the final outcome of Malcolm Turnbull’s broadband plan will be. The policy debate will heat up over the coming months because […]
What happened to honest politics in Queensland? Scott Driscoll shames Newman
April 8, 2013
By David Marler April 7, 2013 The Queensland State election of 2012 delivered the traditionally safe Labor seat of Redcliffe to Scott Driscoll of the Liberal National Party (LNP). Driscoll was born in Redcliffe and was involved in a number of community groups which helped raise his profile in the electorate. He became president of […]
Why this punter’s cheering for the underdog, despite her Labor colours
February 21, 2013
By Noely Neate February 21, 2013 Source: Yathink.com.au I am not a big fan of the ‘hating the MSM’ club to be found on Twitter, as I really don’t feel you can lump a whole profession of print, radio and television journalists in the one basket. I have seen some good reports in the Main […]
Cinderella, Sunshine Coast Style
February 1, 2013
View as slideshow This is a story about the struggle to become one of the elite by doing their dirty deeds, collecting damaging information to hold power and getting rich along the way. The moral of the story is : there are none, no morals that is. The lesson is: If you are not one, […]
Updated: Questions for Mr Abbott at the National Press Club
January 30, 2013
January 31 Press Club review: There are many reasons why the Canberra Press Gallery is failing to fulfil its democratic role. A collapse in media revenues, 24 hour filing, no time to stay with a story and investigate it, an atmosphere which sees journos run from one ephemeral topic to another in waves, an exodus […]
