State MP and Lefty Don Nardella didn't agree with a Head Office decision to defer a training day for a few weeks while a number of marginal seats MPs had been "nuisance" challenged. The response from his factional brother Kosmos Samaras summed up the strong view about the gratuitous nature of many of the preselection fights.
The Greens party state politician Greg Barber has fled Melbourne for the winter, as you do. But the quirky MP has sought out a place so cold they should probably close it, Iceland. He's gone to see how local Greens are wrecking the local economy and to run up the most embarrassing global roaming phone bill since Dean Mighell's last trip to London.
Sean Spencer pretends to be a battler for the battlers in the western suburbs by day and yet by night has a secret plan - disclosed to friends today - to bed a "mail order bride" sex slave from the developing world. Many locals are disgusted by the divorced Buddhist's contempt for women.
Hiring admitted cocaine and ecstasy addict Christian Kerr was a huge gamble for The Australian. Media insiders and colleagues are beginning to question the decision.
The Labor Left is deeply confused. They want to beat the Greens. But also want to copy their policies. And don't want to criticise them even if they do secret deals with Liberals and propose to shutter selective schools. If some like backbench no-hoper Martin Foley have their way, the Greens will seize control of the Socialist Left's heartland. Labor moderate patriots wonder whether to laugh or cry.
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