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 […]
@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 […]
Tony Abbott’s questions of character
April 1, 2013
By @Thefinnigans April 1, 2013 MARGO: @TheFinnigans is a friend from Webdiary days, and he’s been a serious supporter of my return to journalism for a while. He says he compiled this list of what he feels are some of Tony Abbott’s character questions in honour of my first venture back unto political writing for many […]
Tony Abbott on why he left the priesthood
March 28, 2013
Thanks to Laurie Cousins (@sydneysiderblue) for giving @NoFibs the hard copy of this piece. By Tony Abbott August 18. 1987 Source: The Bulletin I WAS AGHAST to realise that something within me, long sickening, had quietly died and felt as a husband might feel who, in the fourth year of his marriage, suddenly knew that he […]
I want to vote Labor – give me a reason!
March 25, 2013
By Noely Neate March 25, 2013 Every man and his dog has given up Labor as a dead loss for the election in September. I am not so sure. John Howard was pretty much in that position at one stage. and it was only the intervention of Tampa and Twin Towers Towers that saved his […]
Mr Abbott, where the bloody hell are you?
March 23, 2013
[gigya src=”http://www.clocklink.com/clocks/9002e-red.swf” flashvars=”TimeZone=GMT1100&From=2010,8,16,21,30,59&Title=ON THE RUN” width=”320″ height=”20″ wmode=”transparent” ] By Luke Mansillo March 23, 2013 Source: @mansillo I have decided to submit a video question to Q&A. It’s quite rare for me to take such drastic steps such as engaging with actual pollies but this is something I felt I needed to get to […]
Citizen journos unite!
March 15, 2013
By Margo Kingston March 15, 2013 Source: Sheilas Sarah Capper, Sheilas editor: Veteran political journalist and author Margo Kingston is back! And just in the nick of time with an election year upon us. After some time off, Margo returned to writing at the end of last year, spurred into action when she heard Opposition leader […]
The round-up: For whom the poll ticks
February 28, 2013
By Sarah Capper, Sheilas Editor VOTER support for Labor has jumped to its strongest levels since the last election to put the federal government within striking distance of the Coalition … This story appeared not two years ago, not six months ago, but less than six weeks ago, on 15 January, 2013 (in The Australian […]
Questions for Mr Pyne
February 3, 2013
PYNE #ASHBY TWISTER: Can anyone draft a @QandA question Pyne can't find a way not to answer? http://t.co/4F1B9Shv — Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) February 2, 2013 Mr Pyne, do you condone the theft of diaries from MPs? If not what action should be taken against people who request & receive stolen goods? What is your attitude to stealing the […]
Liberals Ashby wall of silence cracks….
February 2, 2013
First Labor – Liberal media debate on the Ashby Affair: Lateline transcript February 2, David Bradbury-v-Christopher Pyne http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3681711.htm Margo Kingston comments in red DAVID BRADBURY: … Can I make the point, there is one word I would like to remind Chris of and that’s Ashby and his involvement in the Ashby affair, but more particularly […]
