Greens party ad broke law #politas

The Greens party reckon they set higher standards on issues of campaign finance and advertising. They’ve taken the biggest donation in Australian political history from a property developer and tourism entrepreneur and have also been busted illegally advertising in a …

ABBOTT’S PICK: Bronwyn Bishop to be Speaker after next election

VEXNEWS hears the most likely new Speaker of the House of Representatives if the Coalition wins the next election will be Bronwyn Bishop, one-time former Liberal party leadership aspirant and passionate supporter of the Australian hairspray industry, according to Liberal …

GREEDY GREENS: Greg Barber MBA grubs for loot to “Make History in Melbourne all over again”

The Victorian Greens have been substantially invisible since the last state election. That absence of profile has not discouraged them from chancing their arm in by-elections as they arise.

They reckon their best prospect will be in the state seat …

YARRA GREENS SNAFU: Council wastes $1M+ on a carbon emission reduction agency that does nothing

The Greens party in Yarra have sprayed over a million dollars on an agency they created to reduce carbon emissions that has done no such thing. It even slyly changed its constitution from having to implement anything to merely “note” council carbon targets. It’s one of many problems the Greens will run into at the municipal elections later this year, observers say.

TALIBAN SMACKDOWN: Tony Abbott cleans up a Senate mess, reminding Mitch Fifield who’s in charge

When the eyes of most in Australian politics were squarely on Speaker Slipper’s standing-aside, the Coalition’s attack on Craig Thomson, or the government’s first surplus budget, Liberal front-bencher Mitch Fifield and other plotters were involved in a failed bid to remove Helen Kroger as Opposition Whip in the Senate. It was so ill-considered, extreme and bizarre that it has many of the young and the restless involved in the plotting denounced as being part of a “Taliban faction” of ideological militants and vengeance-seekers in the Liberal party room who could be a source of much instability in the Abbott government likely to be elected next year.