Ashbygate

The James Ashby Conspiracy

Independent Australia – through managing editor David Donovan, Vince O’Grady, Ross Jones and many others – has spent hundreds of hours of investigating and researching the James Ashby / Peter Slipper scandal — a covert political conspiracy by the Coalition to bring down the Parliamentary Speaker, Peter Slipper, and through him the Federal Government of Australia.

This dedicated Ashbygate page will be updated as new information comes to light and more articles are published.

The page is arranged in reverse chronological order — meaning the oldest stories will be found at the bottom of the page.

To get the full story, scroll to the bottom of the page and read upwards.

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Ashbygate: A Conspiracy to bring down a Government

THE LATEST NEWS

Crikey and Media Watch v Friendlyjordies and IA

19 September 2022, 8:00am Despite its claims of being small and independent, Crikey uses its cronies in the ...  

Australian journalists are at war with their audience and the audience says 'enough'!

30 June 2022, 12:00pm Founder and publisher Dave Donovan and managing editor Michelle Pini analyse ...  

James Ashby could face being $4.5 million in debt to the Government

14 May 2022, 8:00am With the following words, it seems kismet and James Ashby might finally have ...  

PRESS CONFERENCE: Dave Donovan's Q&A with the Sydney Uni newsroom

1 March 2022, 11:00am David Donovan joins Pam Walker and  Eva Cox for a Q&A in the Sydney Universi ...  

Corrupting democracy — we need to say "FIN"

26 August 2021, 12:00pm A political party with the sole purpose of eradicating Federal Government corrup ...  

Date looming for James Ashby debt decision

29 July 2021, 4:30pm A decision will be made soon as to whether or not the already massive legal debt ...  

Mainstream media quick to ignore Kristina Keneally's corruption accusations

13 February 2021, 7:00am After Senator Keneally delivered accusations against the Government over corrupt ...  

Paying the piper with One Nation's James Ashby

1 February 2021, 7:00am In the matter of Ashby versus the Commonwealth, there is now a staggering $4,53 ...  

James Ashby took the Speaker to Court and lost — but the piper must be paid

27 July 2020, 8:00am The matter of a $3.75 million legal bill has been simmering since 2012, when ...  

Dave Donovan discusses 10 years of truth-telling with Steve Austin

26 June 2020, 4:00pm For ten years, a local independent news website has been running on the whiff of a ...  

Government is stripping away our civil liberties

30 April 2020, 12:00pm Through media censorship, accessing private data and other restrictions, our ...  

Angus Taylor and the hopelessly compromised AFP

13 February 2020, 7:00am Angus Taylor, Rhodes Scholar, Energy Minister and alleged fraudster extraordinaire ...  

It's time to wake up to the Liberal reality

15 November 2019, 11:00am Australians seem to have become far too accepting of the Liberal Party's mismana ...  

Our country's political decline isn't being helped by the mainstream media

31 August 2019, 4:30pm Over the past few years, we've seen our Government go from bad to worse while news ...  

Brian Burston and the lurid viscera of One Nation

27 May 2019, 12:00pm Ross Jones met Brian Burston prior to the election, to discuss details of the UAP ...  

James Ashby's brilliant career

1 April 2019, 11:00am That James Ashby is still anywhere near Australian politics beggars belief.  

EDITORIAL EXCERPT: Helloworld and other informal corruption

28 February 2019, 6:30am A new disease, corruption anaesthesia, has afflicted the Australian political ...  

EDITORIAL: Informal corruption

27 February 2019, 4:00pm A new disease, corruption anaesthesia, has afflicted the Australian political ...  

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