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No Fibs Podcast

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No Fibs is citizen journalism podcast series that provides political commentary on #ausvotes and #auspol

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PODCAST – ‘The most demanding job I’ve ever done’: Kate Chaney on her first two years as #CurtinVotes’ MP

April 26, 2024 00:37 - 50 minutes - 33.5 MB

“This new community has formed based on radical trust and now I have to actually live up to that trust and indeed do politics differently” Kate Chaney MP No Fibs has helped document Kate Chaney’s campaign for Curtin since I accidentally scored the first interview with her post announcement.  Wanna know why @ChaneyforCurtin has a […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. Sh...

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

March 26, 2024 03:54 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MB

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 Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climat...

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

November 09, 2023 05:13 - 31 minutes - 18.3 MB

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 Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He ...

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

September 24, 2023 07:47 - 1 hour - 61.2 MB

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 Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate ...

SPEECH: Nova Peris makes powerful case for #Voice

September 06, 2023 13:30 - 15 minutes - 8.75 MB

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 Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered the seat of Indi during ...

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

September 04, 2023 00:14 - 43 minutes - 34.5 MB

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 Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate...

PODCAST: Political participation #TheIndiWay, in paperback

June 07, 2023 04:40 - 51 minutes - 45 MB

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 Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist...

#BradfieldVotes PODCAST: Nic Boele and Carey Francis on the ‘Bradfield for Yes’ campaign for The Voice

May 29, 2023 15:10 - 49 minutes - 42.7 MB

ON JUNE 19 last year at the Lindfield Football Club debrief for volunteers, Nicolette Boele announced that Voices for Bradfield had re-endorsed her as its candidate for the next federal election. After all, an all-volunteer campaign on a tight budget in the Indi Way tradition had achieved the biggest swing against a sitting Liberal MP […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activi...

PODCAST: Antipoverty Centre and Kristin O’Connell on a mission to break ‘the poverty machine’ #RaiseTheRate

May 08, 2023 11:27 - 27 minutes - 12.1 MB

KRISTIN O’CONNELL AND her colleagues at the Antipoverty Centre are on a mission to break ‘the poverty machine’. O’Connell talks to No Fibs about pre-budget kite flying, raising the rate and explains what the poverty machine is. I wish I could say something optimistic on that front. I’m a very cynical person and I feel […] Author information Wayne Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered the seat of Indi ...

PODCAST: Kitchen table conversations on the #Voice: Mary Crooks on the why and how of the Victoria Women’s Trust ‘Together, yes’ project

May 04, 2023 03:35 - 41 minutes - 39.5 MB

YES TO THE Voice can’t happen without widespread engagement at the local level on a subject people who disagree generally steer clear of. Simple as that.  Yes there’ll be big ad spends, famous Australian endorsements and sophisticated polling informing highly targeted social media messaging. But, like the community independent movement’s success at the last election, […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian jou...

PODCAST: Fred Chaney calls for mobilisation of citizenry to deliver #UluruStatement

April 07, 2023 05:12 - 39 minutes - 26.3 MB

FRED CHANEY TALKS with Margo Kingston the day after the federal Liberal Party decided to officially oppose the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Chaney helped establish the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia before entering the Australian Parliament as a Senator for WA. He was Aboriginal Affairs Minister in the Fraser government. After leaving politics at […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journa...

PODCAST: In play #NorthShoreVotes prompts Matt Kean attack on Helen Conway

March 19, 2023 04:53 - 39 minutes - 28.8 MB

IN THE UPCOMING NSW election the Liberal Party is facing a strong challenge from community independent, Helen Conway in the safe seat of North Shore. The seat was last held by an independent between 1988 and 1991 when Robyn Read was the local Member. North Shore is currently held by Felicity Wilson who won 46.6% […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She is best known f...

PODCAST: Third generation farmer Rosemary Nankivell on why she won’t stop fighting #CSG mining on the Liverpool Plains.

March 10, 2023 02:51 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB

THIRD GENERATION Liverpool Plains farmer Rosemary Nankivell has been active for more than a decade trying to save the top NSW food bowl, the Liverpool Plains, and the surrounding Pilliga nature reserve and State Forest, from coal and coal seam gas mining. The campaign united farmers, environmentalists and the Gomeroi people to successfully stop proposed […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and cl...

PODCAST: The Bulga Plateau story by Tessa Campisi #SaveBulgaForest

March 08, 2023 12:59 - 44 minutes - 48.2 MB

No Fibs coverage of the Elands community’s campaign to end native forest logging in NSW. My very long Twitter thread starts here https://twitter.com/margokingston1/status/1612289978830327808?s=20 The time is NOW to stop Forestry NSW logging our native forests. #SaveBulgaForest the #NSWVotes frontline + a divinely beautiful legal campsite with lots of room beside a swimming river & close […] Author information Tessa Campisi Tessa Campisi is an amateur audio storyteller based on Widjabal Wiab...

PODCAST: Community independent Victoria Davidson seeking to unseat Perrottet Minister Anthony Roberts #LaneCoveVotes

February 18, 2023 07:58 - 47 minutes - 46.9 MB

IN MARGO’S FIRST podcast for the upcoming NSW election, she chats with the independent candidate for Lane Cove, Victoria Davidson. Davidson is seeking to win the seat of Lane Cove from the deeply conservative Liberal MP, Anthony Roberts. Roberts is the Minister for Planning and the Minister for Homes in the Perrottet government. At the […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activ...

PODCAST: NSW Greens MP Sue Higginson on the Koala Wars and why direct action to protect the people’s native forests is the only option left #SaveBulgaForest

February 13, 2023 03:13 - 1 hour - 76.4 MB

Sue Higginson first fought on the frontline to protect State old growth native forests from logging in the 1990’s. She then studied law and became head of the Environmental Defenders Office to help enforce new laws passed by the Carr Labor Government, and watched legal protections fall apart. So she became an Upper House MP in 2022, […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist...

PODCAST: Inside Susie Russell’s never-ending quest to preserve native forest on the Bulga Plateau #SaveBulgaForest

January 31, 2023 02:03 - 44 minutes - 24.6 MB

IT’S BEEN AN unexpected start to the new year for me, having been called into service by my best friend Susie Russell to live-tweet actions and arrests to try to save native forest on the Bulga Plateau, her home. New year, same horrifying behaviour by loggers in the Bulga Plateau. Locals’ August 2020 protest against […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She is best kno...

PODCAST: Tim Dunlop talks about his #IndependentsDay book Voices of us

December 14, 2022 04:43 - 51 minutes - 27.2 MB

I FIRST ENCOUNTERED Tim Dunlop when he joined Webdiary in 2001 after completing his doctorate, “Towards a Theory of Deliberative Democracy’, the idea that civil discussion and debate among citizens should determine political decisions. An intellectual who has always put theory into practice, Tim sent me an epically long  critique of dairy deregulation which triggered a robust […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Austr...

PODCAST: The Teal Revolution Wentworth players open their #IndependentsDay diaries to Margot Saville

December 09, 2022 06:15 - 36 minutes - 16.1 MB

HERE IS MY interview with journalist Margot Saville on her book ‘The Teal Revolution’, exclusively focused on documenting the origins and progress of the campaigns of what the MSM and Simon Holmes a Court now call ‘the Teals’, defined by Margot as “middle class white women who live in and now represent very affluent communities”. […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. S...

PODCAST: Dr Ann Capling chats with Margo Kingston about the ‘unwinnable seat’ of #KooyongVotes

December 03, 2022 04:09 - 1 hour - 23.2 MB

IN THIS NOFIBS podcast, Margo Kingston chats with artist, author, political scientist and Dr Monique Ryan’s campaign manager at the 2022 federal election, Dr Ann Capling. Dr Capling is originally from Canada and arrived in Australia in 1985, worked as a professor of political science and in 2015 took early retirement to become a water […] Author information Wayne Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered ...

PODCAST: Gone with the winds of democratic change – inside #IndependentsDay

November 29, 2022 06:24 - 26 minutes - 11.8 MB

WANT AN IN-THE-MOMENT under-the-bonnet account of the roiling, sprawling, seat-of-their pants crash through campaigns of #IndependentsDay candidates and exciting first attempts by voters in regional and rural seats?  Want to know how the #IndependentsDay movement began, what it became, and the knowledge to speculate what it might become? Want to dig deep into the operations […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Austral...

PODCAST: #BradfieldVotes community shadows Paul Fletcher MP in new participatory democracy experiment

November 07, 2022 09:31 - 49 minutes - 23.9 MB

LAST TIME MARGO Kingston spoke to Nicolette Boele and Rob Mills in June, they were over the moon about the Bradfield community, against all odds, winning the biggest swing against the government. Since then Voices of Bradfield have endorsed Boele as the community candidate for the Federal next election. Margo Kingston chats to Nicolette Boele […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate chang...

PODCAST: Voices of Mackellar keeps participatory democracy alive for all in #MackellarVotes

October 18, 2022 03:51 - 55 minutes - 26.5 MB

A FEATURE OF the ‘Voices for’ community politics phenomenon, since Voices for Indi pioneered it in 2013, is its particularity. Concepts and values are the common thread, but because each group emerges from local community – and depends on that community for purpose and growth – the groups’ processes, positioning and purpose consequently differ between […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and clim...

PODCAST: How North Sydney’s Independent plans a second #IndependentsDay boilover in Lane Cove at #NSWVotes

September 15, 2022 07:49 - 45 minutes - 22.9 MB

IN THIS EPISODE Margo Kingston chats with, Denise Shrivell and Kristen Lock who are co-founders of North Sydney’s Independent created to find Kylea Tink, the now independent Member for North Sydney in the Federal Parliament. The group was formed after Voices of North Sydney decided they were not going to seek a candidate for the […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. Sh...

PODCAST: #IndiVotes campaign manager Phil Haines talks ‘new power’

September 09, 2022 05:44 - 54 minutes - 28.3 MB

IN THIS EPISODE, Margo Kingston talks with founding member of Voices For Indi, Phil Haines. He was Cathy McGowan’s campaign manager when she defeated then Member for Indi, Sophie Mirabella and in 2016 when she again defeated, Mirabella standing as the Liberal candidate. Phil is married to the current Member for Indi, Helen Haines and […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activis...

PODCAST: inside the #BradfieldVotes campaign with Nicolette Boele and Rob Mills

June 16, 2022 13:52 - 32 minutes - 16.2 MB

Independent Bradfield candidate Nicolette Boele and her campaign manager, Rob Mills discuss the community campaign that turned the once ultra safe seat marginal. Author information Margo Kingston Co-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 citiz...

PODCAST: Cheryl Kernot says Kooyong Goldstein wins special: wraps #ausvotes with No Fibs

May 26, 2022 09:05 - 35 minutes - 14.2 MB

CHERYL KERNOT WRAPS the election campaign with No Fibs. Cheryl Kernot is a trail-blazer for women, a former Senator, leader of the Australian Democrats and former Member for Dickson. Kernot told No Fibs her special seat wins were, Goldstein and Kooyong. At the Kooyong campaign launch Cathy McGowan pulled me aside and asked me to […] Author information Wayne Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered the se...

PODCAST: Kate Chaney says win or lose we’ve changed #CurtinVotes

May 16, 2022 09:11 - 16 minutes - 7.53 MB

MARGO KINGSTON TALKS with Kate Chaney who’s running in the Western Australian seat of Curtin. She has a background in business and has worked at Boston Consulting Group, Westralia Airports Corporation and Wesfarmers where as Aboriginal Affairs Manager she developed the corporation’s first Reconciliation Action Plans. Chaney is running a strong community based campaign and […] Author information Wayne Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen jo...

PODCAST: Cathy McGowan and Thomas Mayor speaking from the heart #UluruStatement

May 16, 2022 05:01 - 32 minutes - 14.1 MB

It’s the culmination of many lessons throughout that history of struggle Thomas Mayor If you want people to change you have to create not only motivation for change but some experience that gives them trust Cathy McGowan What the Greens have done with the Uluru Statement From The Heart or their policy about the Uluru […] Author information Wayne Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered the seat of Indi d...

PODCAST: Ray Kingston reflects on #MalleeVotes 2019 and his hopes for 2022

May 14, 2022 07:09 - 27 minutes - 8.89 MB

LAST WEEK Guardian Australia’s rural and regional editor, Gabrielle Chan, coined the phrase the ‘The Barnaby Line’ and questioned whether in electorates south of this line, such as Nicholls and Mallee, Barnaby Joyce’s regional appeal was now in the negative “losing his MPs and candidates more votes than he attracts.” Mallee was a bit of […] Author information Lesley Howard Citizen Journalist at No Fibs After shouting at the television for many years Lesley decided participation was the bes...

PODCAST: it’s hard but its doable – Nicolette Boele on her quest to turn Upper North Shore #BradfieldVotes independent

May 10, 2022 06:43 - 26 minutes - 12.5 MB

INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE, NICOLETTE Boele is running in the Sydney seat of Bradfield which is held by Liberal, Paul Fletcher. Margo Kingston caught up with the Voices of Bradfield endorsed candidate who’s ending a mid-campaign period of Covid isolation. Related: A miracle is possible in #BradfieldVotes: the high hopes of Nicolette Boele’s campaign manager Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate...

It’s hard but its doable: Nicolette Boele on her quest to turn Upper North Shore #BradfieldVotes independent

May 10, 2022 06:43 - 26 minutes - 12.5 MB

Independent candidate, Nicolette Boele is running in the Sydney seat of Bradfield which is held by Liberal, Paul Fletcher. Margo Kingston caught up with the Voices of Bradfield endorsed candidate who’s ending a mid-campaign period of Covid isolation. Related: A miracle is possible in #BradfieldVotes: the high hopes of Nicolette Boele’s campaign manager Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate...

PODCAST: Albanese finds his mojo and Turnbull makes the case for indies #WrapIn15

May 06, 2022 18:20 - 11 minutes - 6.02 MB

Episode 1 Labor leader Anthony Albanese on the front foot and former Prime Minister, Malcom Turnbull weighs in from the US and makes the case for independents. Author information |

PODCAST: Our wealthiest seats look ready to reinvigorate our democracy and help future-build Australia, writes Margo Kingston

April 15, 2022 08:54 - 53 minutes - 23.5 MB

AFTER THE LAST election I thought, “I’m gunna give up, Australia decided our climate change election so now I’ll have a life”. What made me have another go was the bushfires. And what I found is that the bushfires saw many people begin the ‘Voices for’ thing. It wasn’t, “Okay, May 2019 elections are over, […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-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 ...

PODCAST: #ClimateStrike kids unrepresented in #GoldsteinVotes by ‘passive aggressive’ Tim Wilson

April 01, 2022 21:50 - 9 minutes - 4.55 MB

SCHOOL STRIKE 4 Climate students in Goldstein were unimpressed by Tim Wilson’s Twitter response to their protest at his electorate office this week, which one student leader described as “very passive aggressive”. School students are seeking to have their voices heard on climate during the election campaign with a series of protests organised around the […] Author information Wayne Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photog...

PODCAST: Independent Rob Priestly sees great opportunities for #NichollsVotes in energy transition

February 03, 2022 01:20 - 46 minutes - 20.1 MB

THE NATIONALS ARE facing a stiff challenge in the safe rural Victorian seat of Nicholls from community independent candidate, Rob Priestly who sees great opportunities for the electorate in the transition to a low carbon economy. The current Member, Damian Drum (Nat) who’s retiring at the election won in 2019 with 51.27 precent of the […] Author information Wayne Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered ...

PODCAST: Alex Dyson’s “sick of the politics of politics” taking priority over #WannonVotes community

January 17, 2022 06:14 - 23 minutes - 12.1 MB

CANBERRA’S BEEN A “Game of Thrones’ for almost his entire adult voting life says, Alex Dyson – he’s “sick of the politics of politics” taking priority over things that matter to the people of Wannon and their futures. Dyson was recently selected by community group Voices of Wannon to be their candidate in the South […] Author information Wayne Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photographer. He covered the seat of Indi dur...

The Huw Kingston vs Angus Taylor debate that never was: @margokingston1 #HumeVotes #podcast

May 17, 2019 05:43 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MB

Huw Kingston (@Huw4Hume) the Independent candidate for the NSW electorate of Hume spoke with No Fibs founder Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) in a podcast that covered his campaign and touched briefly on a largely absent Angus Taylor, who since the Watergate scandal went public has largely avoided community forums, except for the meet-the-candidates event hosted by the Goulburn Chamber […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a ret...

Alice Thompson believes Mackellar is a sleeper seat: @margokingston1 #MackellarVotes #podcast

May 17, 2019 04:32 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MB

Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) caught up with Mackellar Independent Alice Thompson (@Indy_Ally) in a brief break from her time at the pre-poll stations in Mackellar, in the final days before the election. I think Mackellar is a sleeper seat Alice Thompson People just don’t know where to place me: I am taking instructions from the Turnbull […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change ...

Helen Haines, optimistic about tomorrow: @margokingston1 #IndiVotes #podcast

May 17, 2019 02:35 - 13 minutes - 19 MB

Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) catches up with Independent candidate Helen Haines (@HelenHaines1) while on the road in the Victorian electorate of Indi for the final No Fibs #IndependentsDay podcast before the federal election. They discuss Helen’s recent panel appearance on ABC’s QandA, and how it appeared to spook the opposition. As Margo notes, a couple of […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalis...

Kerryn Phelps senses a momentum shift in Wentworth: @margokingston1 #WentworthVotes #podcast

May 16, 2019 04:39 - 17 minutes - 24.3 MB

Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) chats with Dr Kerryn Phelps (@drkerrynphelps) in the final days of her campaign as an Independent in the Sydney electorate of Wentworth, and updates listeners that she is sensing a real momentum shift, much the same as she experienced in the previous by-election. I’m sensing a momentum shift in Wentworth in the […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate chan...

Rob Oakeshott says ‘no seat should be taken for granted’: @margokingston1 #CowperVotes #podcast

May 16, 2019 03:07 - 14 minutes - 20 MB

Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) sat around the kitchen table with Rob Oakeshott (@RobOakeshott1), Kate (Rob’s niece), Beth (Rob’s scheduler), Melwyn (Rob’s fundraising manager) and Jack, Rob’s videographer who has recently posted a fact check response video to the latest Nationals’ advert. Rob Oakeshott has been campaigning in the NSW Cowper electorate as an Independent, facing unprecedented […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston i...

Julia Banks hopes to break Lib entitlement in Flinders: @margokingston1 #FlindersVotes #podcast

May 15, 2019 14:17 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MB

Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) spoke with Julia Banks (@juliabanksmp) in the final days of her campaign as an Independent candidate for the safe Liberal seat of Flinders. Julia on whether there was an ulterior motive behind the decision to run against Greg Hunt:- I made the decision way back in August that I wasn’t going to […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She i...

Kevin Mack believes Farrer deserves more than a ‘BYO Australia’: @margokingston1 #FarrerVotes #podcast

May 15, 2019 08:35 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MB

Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) interviews current Mayor of Albury and Independent candidate for Farrer Kevin Mack (@Mack4Farrer), who has travelled more than 16,500 kilometres in recent weeks just to cover the vast Farrer electorate in south-western NSW. Kevin makes a comment on the “interesting” campaign, claiming that Farrer incumbent Sussan Ley has been acting aggressively and […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired...

Kate McBride calls for change in river country: @Jansant #FarrerVotes #Watergate #podcast

May 15, 2019 07:43 - 16 minutes - 22.2 MB

Kate McBride is a fifth-generation pastoralist and the daughter of Rob McBride, owner of Tolarno Station (@TolarnoStation) at Menindee in Western NSW. Together with her father she brought the ecological disaster unfolding on the Darling River to the world’s attention with a viral video of the Menindee fish kill. Kate spoke to Wayne Jansson (@Jansant) […] Author information Wayne Jansson Chief reporter & photographer at No Fibs Wayne Jansson is an Australian citizen journalist and photograp...

Jeremy Miller is running to win Lyne: @margokingston1 #LyneVotes #podcast

May 15, 2019 01:40 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MB

In the latest episode of the No Fibs podcast Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) meets Jeremy Miller (@JeremyforLyne) in person to catch up on how his campaign as an Independent candidate for Lyne has progressed. Recorded live at the Wauchope Country Club, Jeremy explains that he is running to win, largely inspired by former Indi Independent Cathy […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate cha...

Zali Steggall on disrupting the status quo: @margokingston1 #WarringahVotes #podcast

May 14, 2019 10:17 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MB

In the last few days of the campaign, Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) catches up with Zali Steggall (@zalisteggall) the Independent taking on the seat of Warringah currently held by former prime minister Tony Abbott. Full transcript Margo Kingston: Hello, Margo Kingston here, I’m in Cowper where Rob Oakeshott is being fired on with very heavy gunfire, […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and cli...

Ray Kingston closes in on the nation’s safest seat: @margokingston1 #MalleeVotes #podcast

May 13, 2019 05:29 - 9 minutes - 13.3 MB

The electorate of Mallee, until now, has been the safest seat in the nation. Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) spoke with Independent candidate Ray Kingston (@MalleeRay) in the final days of his campaign. The National Party has been doing a heap of polling here, and they are acting like they are pretty concerned, so I will take […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She ...

Anthony Pesec’s battle for the second ACT senate seat: @margokingston1 #SenateVotes #podcast

May 11, 2019 04:22 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MB

Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) checks in with Anthony Pesec (@anthonypesec) — Independent candidate for the second ACT senate seat — as federal election day looms. They discuss the importance and value of strategically voting in order to defeat hard-right Liberal, Zed Seselja, who hasn’t attended a single meet-the-candidates forum. Zed Seselja is widely known for going […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired Australian...

Oliver Yates taking it to ‘moneybags’ Frydenberg: @margokingston1 #KooyongVotes #podcast

May 10, 2019 02:31 - 18 minutes - 25.1 MB

Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) speaks with #KooyongVotes Independent candidate Oliver Yates (@_Oliver_Yates) on the latest episode of the No Fibs podcast and explores the challenges of campaigning in an electorate where the incumbent has reportedly thrown millions of dollars to safeguard. Josh Frydenberg has put 12 people at the pre-poll centre, basically making it impossible for […] Author information Margo Kingston Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs Margo Kingston is a retired...

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