HANDBALL OF FRIENDSHIP: Greg Combet passes burden of scandal-plagued Green Loans and Pink Batts programmes to friend Mark Dreyfus

New cabinet secretary Mark Dreyfus gets on very well with Climate Change minister and ex ACTU boss Greg Combet, by all accounts. The highly regarded QC MP had the highly ambitious NSW MP down to launch his re-election campaign in …

NT NEWS: “Horny Ghost Haunts House – If you thought Casper was friendly you should meet Kevin”

  The NT News livens up Darwin in a way it surely doesn’t need, today its front-page splash reports on the claimed presence of a “horny ghost” named Kevin who reportedly tries to get it on with a local housewife …

CLEVER TED: Baillieu makes life very difficult for challengers

Ted Baillieu is a dud. But it’s no accident that he’s been able to fend off potential challengers even with depressing poll numbers.

MATES: Labor leftist ends up in charge of Building & Construction Commission

Leigh Johns, a former leading lefty light in the Melbourne Ports ALP, has emerged as the Labor government’s appointment as the head of the Australian Building & Construction Commission.

Johns during his ALP involvement was a prominent activist within the …

TRUE BLUE: The Weekly Times, country Independents, Farmers and ex Nats leader all call on Liberals to stop supporting extreme-left anti-farmer Greens party

Victorian Liberal leader Ted Baillieu is under pressure from the Victorian Farmers Federation, the Weekly Times, former Nationals leaders and country Independents to stop supporting the Greens party with preferences in inner-city Melbourne seats because the extreme-left party’s policies would destroy the economy of regional Victoria.

CRASHED: Greens leading Labor by the nose to policy disaster

Revelations about the impractical nature of the Greens party’s proposed high-speed rail link between Brisbane and Melbourne illustrate the problem of letting the extreme-left anywhere near the levers of power in Australia.

LEFTY HOUSE OF WORSHIP: Coup attempt fails

Following our story last week, many were keen to hear how the battle royal in the left-wing Melbourne Unitarian Church turned out. We are told their election results declared yesterday are

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Peter Abrehart   19

Lev Lafayette      14

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LIVING NEXT DOOR TO KEVIN: The Rudds buy their way back into Yarralumla

Julia Gillard and her partner Tim Matheson moved into the Lodge near Canberra’s ritzy suburb of Yarralumla on Sunday. Not to be outdone, the Rudds revealed on Sunday they’d purchased a new home in Canberra, actually in Yarralumla, a strong-arm’s stone’s throw from the Lodge. Naturally VEXNEWS has exclusive pics of the new House of Rudd.

BOMB-THROWER: Sydney Uni lecturer Tim Anderson attacks United States Studies Centre

Tim Anderson might have ultimately been found not guilty of bombing the Sydney Hilton in a terrorist attack but the Sydney Uni academic and Cuba solidarity activist continues to hold extremist views that he presents as academically credible. We look at his latest anti-American diatribe and find he ignores facts that don’t suit him and far more worrying examples of the problem of which he complains.

TED TROUBLE: Victorian Liberal MP Bill Tilley might be stripped of preselection

A Victorian state Liberal MP Bill Tilley could be stripped of his preselection for his safe country seat just two months before the state election.