Margo Kingston interviews Anna Broinowski who embedded herself in Pauline Hanson’s Senate campaign for the 2016 election. Kingston wrote Off The Rails about Hanson’s 1998 election campa…

Voices for Ovens Valley community group announced local tradie and TAFE lecturer, Steve Manning as their endorsed independent candidate on Tuesday for the upcoming Victorian state election in Novem…

President of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, Nasser Mashni, who’s currently in London, discusses the Palestinian struggle and its now rapidly growing support. Mashni provides commen…

Jews Against Occupation ’48 (JAO48) held an event over the weekend on Bondi Beach in support of the, Sumud Flotilla which aims to break the siege on Gaza and deliver aid to Palestinians. The …

This week Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism, Jillian Segal delivered “her plan” to combat anti-Semitism. Before the end of the press conference, social media lit u…

I HAVE BEEN involved in activism for 55 years – starting with moratorium marches during the Vietnam war when I was 18 – taking part in protests mainly about social justice issues and en…

WHISTLEBLOWERS AUSTRALIA IS an advocacy and support group for people who buck the system to tell the truth, scary. WA’s Cynthia Kardell asked me to speak at its annual conference after reading my S…

“The decision to move from covering protests to joining in was important to the author, and her experience of lock-on and arrest revealed the courage that direct action requires.” Lock on: from rep…

Ken Henry and I reside in Comboyne, the village on the Comboyne Plateau north of the Bulga Plateau. Ken’s father was a logger and he grew up in Taree before becoming Treasury Secretary for Peter Co…

Comedian and former Triple J Breakfast host, Alex Dyson is contesting the federal seat of Wannon for the third time and his support has been growing since his first run in 2019.

“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…

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 …

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IT WAS NOT long before the emergence of a cottage industry in Camelot era style commentary, fuelled the publication of literally thousands of books – biographies, footnoted, not footnoted, we…

IT IS NOVEMBER 1963 and we are back on familiar and well-worn territory with the infamous political trip to Dallas, Texas – which had been won by the Democrats in 1960 by a very slim margin. …

IT IS THE the nature of history to perpetually rewrite itself. This was evident in 2003 when a joint Indonesian and Australian team of archaeologists discovered a new species of archaic hominid on …

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 a…

THE SAME JOURNALISTS who ignored tens of thousands of non-Indigenous Australians standing in unity with Indigenous Australians, told us on Monday following the referendum to respect the result. Yea…

Voice to Parliament concert for ‘Yes’ Shepparton

THE ADVANCE ‘NO’ prepoll team in Benalla is working with far right activist, Mark Mack who threatened the Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney, the Member for Indi Helen Hai…

A FAR RIGHT Benalla group claims the office of the Deputy Nationals leader, Senator Bridget McKenzie provided the group with Coalition campaign material to display and distribute. A member of the g…

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...

On Wednesday evening 80 to 100 people gathered to hear, Senator Jana Stewart, Helen Haines MP and Shepparton Councillor Greg James make The Case For Yes in Victoria’s North East at The Glassh…

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WHEN INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS offered the Uluru Statement from the Heart to the nation, they invited all Australians to walk with them. That invitation wasn’t a rhetorical flourish or something…

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��...

“If I could do one thing in my time in politics and parliament for however long that may be, I sincerely hope it is just encouraging more people to understand that the democracy is theirs. You know�...

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.  Dur…

AFL legend and anti-racism campaigner, Michael Long on Monday told a crowd gathered at Apex Park, Wangaratta a “contingent” will be sent to London seeking support for the ‘Yes&#82…

A radical far right group called A Stand in the Park Benalla (ASIP Benalla) whose members include anti-vaxxers, white supremacists and WiFi conspiracy theorists are campaigning against a Voice to P…

DR SOPHIE SCAMPS: INDEPENDENT MP FOR MACKELLAR | RSS.com JUST OVER A year ago, on 21 May, 2023, Australia experienced a seismic shift in its political landscape with a federal election that saw six…