Independent Member for Indi Helen Haines (@helenhainesindi) discusses the Parliamentary Standards bill she introduced into the Parliament during 2020 and how it could help make Parliament a safer workplace for women. Commonwealth Parliamentary Standards Bill 2020 Australian Federal Integrity Commission Bill 2020 [email protected]: Sexual Harassment National Inquiry Report (2020) *Apologies: during the interview with Helen […]
Parliamentary Standards Bill can make politics safer for women says @helenhainesindi: @jansant reports #March4Justice
March 17, 2021
Centrelink #JobActive disability contractors breaching #SpringSt #COVID19aus pandemic orders: @jansant reports
February 24, 2021
Commonwealth JobActive disability contractors (job providers) are playing dice with the health of unemployed workers most at risk of serious illness from COVID-19 infection, by ignoring Victorian Government health directives to wear masks inside. JobActive contractors run Centrelink’s “mutual obligation” scheme. I went to 3 job providers in Benalla and Wangaratta and staff at all […]
Scale and implications of #KoalaKillers crime still unknown: @jansant reports on #SpringSt
February 5, 2020
Since No Fibs published the first news story on the Portland Koala Massacre, the number of dead, injured, starving and trapped koalas on the Victorian blue gum timber plantation near Cape Bridgewater is no clearer. According to a Rob Hadler, spokesperson for South West Fibre (SWF) – the company who carried out an approved timber […]
Gruesome koala massacre during logging operations in Victoria: @jansant reports #springst
February 2, 2020
Unknown numbers of koalas – possibly hundreds – have been killed during plantation logging operations south west of Portland in Victoria this week. Friends of the Earth (FOE) reported koalas were left to starve after logging operations in late December 2019. Last week, surviving koalas were bulldozed into slash piles, along with the bodies of […]
Fight the #ClimateEmergency and you might even win #ausvotes: @jansant comments on #ClimateElection
May 22, 2019
What if there was a climate emergency and the major party’s didn’t turn up? If you listen to many in mainstream media – what climate election? But they’re dead wrong. The Coalition and Labor Party failed to turn up – others didn’t and won victories or made strong inroads into the Coalition primary vote – […]
Captain GetUp saving #IndiVotes from itself: @Jansant comments on #AusVotes
May 16, 2019
Prime Minister Scott Morrison dropped into Wangaratta on Wednesday this week for a quick press conference but did not take any questions from media — nothing to see here. This follows Tuesday’s visit to the same Indi battleground by far-right climate change denial group Advance Australia’s Captain GetUp — and there was definitely something to […]
Kate McBride calls for change in river country: @Jansant #FarrerVotes #Watergate #podcast
May 15, 2019
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) […]
Nat senator sees ‘great hoax’ in #ClimateAction: @Jansant reports on @senbmckenzie #IndiVotes
May 14, 2019
At pre-poll in Wangaratta on Saturday, Senator Bridget McKenzie refused to provide the cost to our economy of not taking swift and decisive action against climate change. I asked McKenzie what the economic cost of not taking fast action against climate was:- Bridget McKenzie (BM): Our country set very ambitious emission targets.No Fibs (Me): But […]
Lib @SteveForIndi won’t come clean on dirty coal, collusion: @jansant reports on #IndiVotes
May 12, 2019
The Liberal candidate for Indi Steve Martin has refused to answer questions about his campaign’s collusion with Cory Bernardi’s far right Australian Conservatives, or his support for brown coal power stations, when asked at Wodonga pre-poll on Saturday. No Fibs: So you’re refusing to answer any questions on anything, is that it?Martin: Yes that’s right. […]
