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The No Fibs Podcast explores a wide range of issues and topics of interest as it relates to #ausvotes and #auspol written by Australian citizen journalists.

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The No Fibs Podcast explores a wide range of issues and topics of interest as it relates to #ausvotes and #auspol written by Australian citizen journalists.

    PODCAST: Jan Bowman chronicles Rudd to Chandler-Mather in Griffith

    PODCAST: Jan Bowman chronicles Rudd to Chandler-Mather in Griffith

    Jan’s Westender retirement piece, followed by links to her archive, is:  Farewell and gratitude: reflecting on four years as editor at the Westender Since then Jan has helped chronicle the rise of the Greens in Queensland, and recently interviewed the Greens candidate for mayor at this month’s Brisbane Council election in:  Jan Bowman interviews the […]Author information
    Margo KingstonCo-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs

    Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She is best known for her stint as Phillip Adams’ ‘Canberra Babylon’ contributor and her work at The Sydney Morning Herald and #Webdiary. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and No Fibs.


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    PODCAST: former Australian deputy chief UN climate negotiator on hunger strike

    PODCAST: former Australian deputy chief UN climate negotiator on hunger strike

    IN THIS EPISODE No Fibs talks with Gregory Andrews who’s currently on a climate hunger strike outside Parliament House in Canberra. Andrews is the owner and founder of Lyrebird Dreaming, an adjunct professor with the University of Canberra’s applied ecology, a former Ambassador and High Commissioner in West Africa and was a diplomat in China, […]Author information
    Wayne JanssonChief reporter & photographer at No Fibs

    Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered the seat of Indi during the 2013 federal election and since has covered the growth of the community independent movement.


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    PODCAST: Thousands of KTCs for #VoteYes – Mary Crooks on the Victorian Women’s Trust’s ‘Together, Yes’ campaign

    PODCAST: Thousands of KTCs for #VoteYes – Mary Crooks on the Victorian Women’s Trust’s ‘Together, Yes’ campaign

    WHEN I INTERVIEWED Mary Crooks in May, the Victorian Women’s Trust was finalising its ‘Together, Yes’ Kitchen Table Conversations package for Australians willing to host get togethers of up to ten people to discuss The Voice without the noise.  Four months on, we discuss the project’s rollout, under the auspices of the Yes23 campaign, and why Mary […]Author information
    Margo KingstonCo-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs

    Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She is best known for her stint as Phillip Adams’ ‘Canberra Babylon’ contributor and her work at The Sydney Morning Herald and #Webdiary. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and No Fibs.


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    SPEECH: Nova Peris makes powerful case for #Voice

    SPEECH: Nova Peris makes powerful case for #Voice

    AFL LEGEND AND anti-racism campaigner, Michael Long on Monday told a crowd gathered at Marmungun Rock (Apex Park), Wangaratta a “contingent” will be sent to London seeking support for the ‘Yes’ campaign from, King Charles III. Long is on The Long Walk to Canberra and he was joined by Nova Peris. In 1996 as part […]Author information
    Wayne JanssonChief reporter & photographer at No Fibs

    Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered the seat of Indi during the 2013 federal election and since has covered the growth of the community independent movement.


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    PODCAST: Kylea Tink’s radical #NorthSydneyVotes ‘Deliberative Democracy’ experiment to break housing crisis impasse

    PODCAST: Kylea Tink’s radical #NorthSydneyVotes ‘Deliberative Democracy’ experiment to break housing crisis impasse

    FIFTY VOTERS IN the seat of North Sydney will meet on October 29 for a Deliberative Democracy people’s summit to determine what they think should be done to solve the housing crisis.  During our interview half way into her term, North Sydney’s #IndependentsDay MP Kylea Tink said she’s organising the experiment under the mentorship of New Democracy, […]Author information
    Margo KingstonCo-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs

    Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She is best known for her stint as Phillip Adams’ ‘Canberra Babylon’ contributor and her work at The Sydney Morning Herald and #Webdiary. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and No Fibs.


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    PODCAST: Political participation #TheIndiWay, in paperback

    PODCAST: Political participation #TheIndiWay, in paperback

    IN THIS No Fibs episode I talk with Phil Haines and Lesley Howard, two of the 12 authors of the recently published book, THE INDI WAY. “THE INDI WAY is a revealing account of a community using values-based, respectful processes to rewrite the political playbook. Featuring contributions by @helenhainesindi, @latingle, @barriecassidy, @Indigocathy, and more.” Scribe […]Author information
    Wayne JanssonChief reporter & photographer at No Fibs

    Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered the seat of Indi during the 2013 federal election and since has covered the growth of the community independent movement.


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    • 51 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
13 Ratings

13 Ratings

MugPunter69 ,

Must hear podcast for 2019 election

Great coverage Margo & team. The independents are amazing! I knew it took a lot of work but that’s only half the battle. Informative and concise & quite timely. Beats the rest of the dross being served by current MSM. Thank you!

LouClare21 ,

AAbill podcast

A very interesting and concise podcast. Thank you for highlighting this issue. The AAbill is a worrying step for the Australian government to take. With echoes of Orwell’s 1984, let’s hope our future contains no other similarities.

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