FOWLES: Socialist atheist teams up with evangelist

Word is that Champagne Socialist Lefty Will Fowles has approached very conservative Christian councillor David Wilson to run as his Deputy in the City of Melbourne election. Fowles reputedly has promised to spend a few hundred grand in his quest …

TALIBAN: Left on left violence breaks out over Melbourne Trades Hall

In a kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed former Maoist may be king. But a usurper lurks from the left.

PROFANITY: Heartless Lew family conspires to deprive us of schnitzel

Who killed one of Melbourne’s most special traditions? The answer is Lew.

GOOD GET: John So Chief of Staff teams up with McMullin

Lord mayoral hopeful Peter McMullin might have scored an excellent coup with John So’s highly regarded chief of staff Kevin Louey indicating he might join McMullin’s team running in November’s council election.

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DEMONIC PAYBACK: Melbourne Football Club helps fill councillor election slush funds after councillors splashed the cash on the elite club

Casey council spent $1.4 million on helping Melbourne Football Club. In return the Club’s captain and football manager are helping three councillors who voted for the largesse by being “celebrity guests” at election fund-raisers. Critics are concerned that this is a corrupt payback that is probably illegal and certainly unethical.

OBSESSED: Why are we so pre-occupied with US Presidential politics?

Christian Lyons wonders why we’re so pre-occupied with US/UK elections but couldn’t give a cold bowl of miso for elections Nihon.

LOW: Greens party smears Church hospital over treatment of rape victims

The Greens party has been caught smearing a Catholic Church run hospital with false claims that it neglected hospitalised victims of sexual assault. Critics say the truth couldn’t be any more different from the fiction put about by Victorian upper house MP Colleen Hartland who has made her hatred of the Church very clear.