PIRATES OF PENTHOUSE: The time has come once more to mock the French

Brutish Somali pirates raided a French luxury cruise ship. The French crew were horrified they didn’t want their haute cuisine and certainly didn’t want their women. The hostages have now their story.

DROP-KICK: The Age’s Royce Millar "reveals" solar energy plant but we reveal his "investigation" was just cut & paste

The Age Investigations Unit once falsely accused Kerry Packer of being a heroin trafficker. Oops. Now this unit – more a target of fun than fear these days – is cutting and pasting embargoed state government press releases and presenting them as their work. When you’re in the gutter, and going lower, doesn’t that leave you in the sewer?

SMARTCARD? Myki’s teething problems put the bite on Brumby government

State governments stand or fall in large part because of the perception of their competence in service delivery and managing the budget.

Introducing new ticketing systems for public transport is never easy but the myki one seems to be particularly …

BIG TENT FLAP: Liberal party fundraiser held in Vic Parliament grounds in breach of guidelines

To the certain knowledge of VEXNEWS investigators, occupants of Melbourne’s Parliament House have done illegal drugs, fornicated, drunkenly vomited, had sword fights with the billiard cues and fell asleep in the chamber. These things happen, but there’s one rule in Spring Street not meant to be broken: Thou shalt not hold party fundraisers at Parliament House. Someone didn’t read the memo.