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“SHOCKED AND TRAUMATISED”: Edwina Storie speaks out after VEX uncovered her double life, sources say she’s ready to press flush on PressTV
Press TV’s unlikely correspondent Edwina Storie has spoken out exclusively to VEXNEWS about her reaction to last week’s globally viral story on her exploits. It appears the Iranian propaganda channel will not have the pleasure of Ms Storie’s company for much longer.
GREENSPARTY’S WATERGATE: Hip and cool WikiLeaks party set to swoop on ethically challenged Greensparty
Criminal charges for a senior Greensparty honcho, Fraser Brindley, over the illegal penetration of a rival political party’s computers, will make it very difficult indeed for the party to pretend it’s the moral superior of other parties. With looming threats like the WikiLeaks party set to pick at their carcass after three years of being closely connected with an unpopular federal Labor government, things aren’t looking good for once idealistic enviro-party in the post Bob Brown era.
MAYNE COURSE: Greedy Melbourne councillor Stephen Mayne under corruption cloud over rorting free-meals entitlement at Town Hall
Melbourne councillor Stephen Mayne could be one of the first local politicians referred to the new Victorian Independent Broad-based Commission Against Corruption following revelations he’s been rorting little-known, very expensive and lavish “internal sustenance arrangements” at the Town Hall.
FARRAH FORCED IT: Journalist burned confidential ministerial source, leaving Andrew McIntosh a smouldering ruin
Feisty Fairfax factotum Farrah Tomazin clumsily divulged the identity of a confidential source, causing a senior Victorian Liberal minister to resign. Should she also resign? Many in Spring Street think her goose is cooked.
FAKE SHEIKH: Fears Greensparty ACT Senate candidate Simon Sheikh sought loot from Obeid for GetUp! cash stash
Ex ALP NSW Right operative turned ACT Greensparty candidate Simon Sheikh is rumoured to have hit up controversial former NSW Right chieftain and multi-millionaire Eddie Obeid as part of a GetUp! fundraising drive.
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY: First it was Buswell & Carles, now WA Greensparty shows Liberals How-To-Vote lerv
Despite pretending to be a party of principle, the Greensparty in WA have been caught out in what their supporters and Labor critics see as a sleazy preference swap with their supposed conservative adversaries. How many Greensparty voters will actually follow a How-To-Vote card that preferences Liberal will be interesting to watch but in any event, it is all enough to remind us of one of VEXNEWS biggest yarns when we exposed the indecent liaison between then Greensparty MP Adele Carles and heavy-hitting Liberal, then WA Treasurer Troy Buswell. Good times…
“I’M A BLOODY AXE MURDERER”: Baillieu’s chief-of-staff complains about VEXNEWS on secret audio recordings
Tony Nutt, Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu’s Chief of Staff, reckons VEXNEWS has presented him as a “bloody axe murderer.” That’s not quite right but the fact that our publication looms so large in private political discussions among all parties is a powerful acknowledgement of what VEXNEWS has achieved in breaking the news that shakes the nation.
DUMMY-SPITS: The Age’s Clay Lucas secret Labor right-winger shame exposed
The Age’s Clay Lucas has not fully disclosed his fascinating political past. We do it for him.
THE ABC OF IMPARTIAL REPORTING: Bashing Israel bruises our public broadcaster’s rep
Pretending far-left extremist Antony Loewenstein is a mainstream voice speaking on behalf of the Jewish community on Israel discredits the ABC.
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