SMH reports: ‘Tiffanie and the minister: Macdonald accepted sexual services arranged by Medich, inquiry hears’

The Independent Commission Against Corruption in NSW has heard ex Labor lefty state minister Ian Macdonald accepted “sexual services” from a sweetly-named young sex-worker ‘Tiffanie’ as a payment for teeing up meetings with accused murderer former developer Ron Medich and …

BIG SHOES TO FILL: Peter Slipper to become Speaker, government to gain selfless Harry Jenkins’ vote

The minority Labor government will have its numbers boosted by one as a result of Harry Jenkins resigning as Speaker and their decision to support Liberal MP Peter Slipper in the role.

Bob Brown faces corruption probe on helping $1.6M political donor

Greens leader Bob Brown made a mistake taking a $1.6 million donation from travel millionaire Graeme Wood, the largest in Australian political history. And he’s made a bigger mistake proposing public policy changes that would financially benefit his rich benefactor.…

Climate Change dept bureaucrats spend millions on first class o/s travel

Simons Benson & Birmingham have done well exposing the outrageous lavish living of Climate Change department bureaucrats who are running up bills of $250,000 a month on overseas travel. “Paris, London, New York and Madrid were regular” destinations, the Tele …

Labor moderates to resist Left’s push for more union boss power

A plan by Labor’s Left led by NSW firebrand Senator Doug Cameron – known to his friends as Groundskeeper Willie – to increase the power of union leaders in the ALP is likely to be resisted by the majority of …

Senate inquiry finds Australia’s live export trade was ‘ambushed’ by ABC

Plain-talking take-no-prisoners Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan has given the ABC a kicking over its spectacular Four Corners report that exposed weird and odious cattle management practices at Indonesian abattoirs.

“Many on the committee are satisfied that the primary motivation for …

THE OMERTA CODE: Sex predator Peter Roebuck preyed on young blokes wherever he went

Peter Roebuck’s colleagues at the ABC – and in cricket reporting more generally – saw the sexual predator’s conduct at first-hand. They kept his serial sexual harassment of young male employees quiet for decades. They are quiet still.