HE’S THE MAN: Phil Coorey take a bow on Bob Carr crash turned crash-through yarn

The Prime Minister showed off her throbbing mojo, defying expectations to appoint former NSW Premier Bob Carr as Foreign Minister. She seemed happy. And she certainly seemed to have made an old man very happy too, judging by Carr’s irrepressible smile during the announcement. But the happiest of all was the utterly vindicated Fairfax Gallery scribe Phil Coorey who broke what seemed a highly implausible story on Monday. We present a very rare special event in the life of VEXNEWS: a reverse ferret with carefully curated music.

Send in the Bob Browns

Wayne Swan’s unfortunate lashing of the rich for showing excessive enthusiasm for prosecuting their views of the world has been made to look quite sensible by comparison to the Greens retirement age parliamentary leader Bob Brown who observed:

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SWAN DIVE: The World’s Greatest Treasurer indulges in some Chavez cha-cha-cha

Treasurer Wayne Swan is a world-beater, literally. But his crude attempts to channel Hugo Chavez by attacking the rich for a popular thrill-kill sends the wrong message.

Friend & foe alike lavish TV star Mark Arbib with praise to his face #auspol

An 18-year-old Mark Arbib appeared in episode 368 of the Channel Seven TV series Home and Away, which aired in 1989. His character’s name was “Freddy.”

VIDEO: Mark Arbib on Home and Away

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#springst The Age froths at mouth about government appointment announced last June

The Age has a thing for Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy, just as they had a thing for his lanky predecessor Justin Madden.

Guy did the wrong thing by playing along with their character assassination of Madden and by playing …