David Marler

Jan 8, 2025 | nofibs.com.au | Helen Kvelde |Margo Kingston |David Marler |Lesley Howard

Bio More info I am 73, married, a mother of three adults and an almost retired psychologist. I have worked in private practice in Sydney for nearly 50 years, ran mothers’ groups and worked with young Aboriginal mothers at risk of losing custody of their children with an organisation called Parents Infants Family Australia. I have been active in protecting the environment for 50 years, all the while watching things just getting worse.

Dec 9, 2024 | nofibs.com.au | Margo Kingston |David Marler |Lesley Howard |Peter Clarke

Bio More info 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 Saturday Paper piece last month on my arrest. I met Peter Fox and Jeff Morris when I happened to sit at the same table for lunch after my speech. Two double diamond whistleblowers.

Nov 28, 2024 | nofibs.com.au | Margo Kingston |David Marler |Lesley Howard |Peter Clarke

Bio More info “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 reporting on protests to joining themAbridged version published in The Saturday PaperJesse Witney, Jane Watson, Knitting Nana Bronwyn Vost and I at Taree local court for locking on to a giant harvester to help #SaveBulgaForest.

Oct 22, 2024 | nofibs.com.au | Margo Kingston |David Marler |Lesley Howard |Peter Clarke

Bio More info Your browser does not support the audio element. 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 Costello and Paul Keating and chairman of the NAB.

Aug 12, 2024 | nofibs.com.au | Margo Kingston |Peter Clarke |Tim Dunlop |David Marler

Bio More info This year marks a significant anniversary in Australian political history. But few Australian citizens will be celebrating it mainly because they simply don’t know what it is. In 1924, as Australia entered its third decade of federation, our federal parliament passed legislation mandating compulsory voting. 100 years later, that innovation has been meshed into our political lives and democracy as utterly normal. The “democracy sausage” effect.