LABOR PAINS: John Faulkner is not the Messiah complains angry ALP insiders

Labor’s departing Defence Minister John Faulkner gets a brilliant run in the press. Labor insiders say he’s over-rated and could single-handedly have cost Gillard government.

INAPPROPRIATE: Taxpayer funded La Trobe University administration rolls out the tanks for Bob Brown

A correspondent observes:

LaTrobe Uni, Robert Manne and Vice Chancellor are campaigning for the Greens. Academics and post-graduate students are being emailed and urged to attend.

Should the Uni be made to declare the resources it has provided the Greens …