“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 informati…

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 …

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, […] A…

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 […

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 …

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, …

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, a…

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 in…

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 J…

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 …