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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

VEXNEWS — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:12:01 +0000

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

VEXNEWS — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:43:01 +0000

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

VEXNEWS — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:51:38 +0000

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.

Stonehenge general manager sought

VEXNEWS — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:10:52 +0000

With Greensparty federal casualties expected in several states at the next election scheduled by the PM for September, the $130,000-a-year gig of managing new Age hippy favourite place Stonehenge in England most be sorely tempting for several nervous incumbents..…

FARRAH FORCED IT: Journalist burned confidential ministerial source, leaving Andrew McIntosh a smouldering ruin

VEXNEWS — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:05:05 +0000

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

VEXNEWS — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:01:11 +0000

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

VEXNEWS — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:29:27 +0000

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

VEXNEWS — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:48:25 +0000

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

Andrew Landeryou — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:50:36 +0000

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

VEXNEWS — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:05:14 +0000

Pretending far-left extremist Antony Loewenstein is a mainstream voice speaking on behalf of the Jewish community on Israel discredits the ABC.

MAYNIAC STRIKES AGAIN: Failed attempt at corrupting MAV vote blows up in Stephen Mayne’s face

VEXNEWS — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:54:07 +0000

Strange-cat councillor Stephen Mayne has been caught out attempting to corrupt the Municipal Association of Victoria presidential ballot. Naturally, VEXNEWS is there. UPDATE: Mayne lost. Badly.

Melbourne Uni has a taxpayer-funded graffiti expert

VEXNEWS — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:11:33 +0000

You will comforted to learn the University of Melbourne has an expert on street graffiti and that he is available for quotes and analysis on matters of inner-urban concern.

Their website advises:

Dr Lachlan MacDowall is an artist and …

Lakemba mosque’s Christmas Grinch fatwa shocks Muslim community

VEXNEWS — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:00:40 +0000

An extremist imam at the Lakemba Mosque has issued a fatwa against Christmas, advising worshippers it is a “sin” for them to even wish people ‘Merry Christmas’

Other Lebanese Muslim community leaders are not so sure, including Keysar Trad who …

ANU student newspaper not allowed to publish Victor White fraud details

VEXNEWS — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:51:49 +0000

ANU’s student newspaper has been banned from revealing details of the alleged $125,000 fraud against it by a former official.

VEXNEWS revealed the identity of the alleged thief – a Victor White – earlier in the year. The fellow threatened …

HELL HATH NO FURY: Adele Carles dobs in ex-lover Troy Buswell for drunkenly “dry-humping” Perth millionaire

VEXNEWS — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:47:28 +0000

Just in time for Christmas, the ex Greensparty MP Adele Carles who shagged WA Liberal minister Troy Buswell - in a most unlikely coupling - is starting to blab about the dirty deets of their indecent liaison to Perth political scribes. Hilarity has ensued.

NSW Labor Left sorry they preselected Ian Macdonald 6 times – #nswpol

VEXNEWS — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 05:58:46 +0000

The NSW Labor Left has today apologised for preselecting former state minister Ian Macdonald for elections in 1988, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2007 to avoid fall-out from bad publicity arising from his now somewhat notorious twenty-two years of public …

THE GREEDIEST MAN IN AUSTRALIA: Billionaire retailer Sol Lew still crying poor, blaming internet shoppers

VEXNEWS — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:23:37 +0000

Solomon Lew has made a lot of money from selling cheap stuff from China at very high prices in shopping centres. But the billionaire still isn't happy and wants internet shopping slugged with a new tax that would cost more to collect than it would raise and would cause tremendous delivery delays for shoppers.

PLAYING POLITICS: Victoria’s Ombudsman seeking revenge on Baillieu

VEXNEWS — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:36:24 +0000

Victoria’s Ombudsman has been made accountable for the first time to an inspectorate and parliamentary committee that will oversee its increasingly notorious activities.

In response, George Brouwer, soon to retire as Ombudsman, has been writing public letters attacking the government …

“Child safety” bureaucrats unleash sex predator foster child on family, then blame the kids he raped

VEXNEWS — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:58:18 +0000

Queensland bureaucrats paid to look after child safety unleashed a troubled teen sex predator foster child – without warning the foster parents – on a family and are now defending litigation brought by his victims on the basis it was …

A CASEY OF HATE: Local councillor Sam Aziz attacks Islam and invites fiery preacher Danny Nalliah to address council

VEXNEWS — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:01:04 +0000

Sam Aziz, a local councillor in Melbourne's notorious Casey council, has told journalists that Islam is horrifying and appears to have pre-judged his opposition to proposals for a mosque. He's also trying to liven up the occasionally Fight Club style theatrics of the Kath 'n' Kim council with a shock plan to invite anti-Muslim fanatic preacher Danny Nalliah to address the council. What could possibly go wrong?

WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS? Both sides of politics have had a gutful of Victoria’s shonk Ombudsman

VEXNEWS — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:36:37 +0000

Victoria's discredited Ombudsman George Brouwer is playing politics again, this time writing a letter to Premier Ted Baillieu and leaking it prior to the Premier even being able to reply. Is this reasonable conduct for a supposedly politically independent statutory officer of the Parliament? He really is a disgrace.

MAKING US RALPH: Horny old loser Ralph Blewitt’s lengthy custodial sentence could starve Asian sex industry

VEXNEWS — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:37:47 +0000

VEXNEWS exposé of the PM's principal embezzlement conspiracy theory promoter, Ralph Blewitt, as a "sex predator" has gained further national attention, this time in News Limited Sunday newspapers which have also revealed that his supposed partner-in-crime Bruce WIlson has said she nothing about it. Meanwhile, because it offers readers more pleasure than even dirty dog Ralph could get from a lithe young Balinese lady and a bottle of baby oil, we give Blewitt a fair old kicking and reprise past slimings while contemplating what the old goat appears not to have given much thought: that confessing to serious crimes could get you a serious custodial penalty.

RATEPAYERS RIPPED: Infamous Casey council loses $3 million in failed footy pokies scheme

VEXNEWS — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:56:57 +0000

Victoria's most notorious local council, the City of Casey, has lent $3 million of ratepayers' money to a football club for a pokies venture that failed. There's next to no chance the money will be repaid, with the Herald Sun reporting the club is on the verge of financial collapse.

FERAL GOES LEGAL: CFMEU boss revs up Rolls Royce lawyer to sue Tony Abbott

VEXNEWS — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:47:16 +0000

CFMEU union boss John Setka is officially paid about $100K per annum. And yet he's able to indulge in the rich man's pastime of hiring the best QC money can buy to sue a politician for slagging him off. Either Setka's a financial genius or there are questions that union members will want answered about his source of funds.

A vote for Alex Greenwich in Sydney is a vote for NIMBY policies that entrench privilege

VEXNEWS — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:41:44 +0000

Alex Greenwich, the lefty Clover Moore backed independent expected to win the state Sydney by-election, is a less progressive choice for Labor voters than a Liberal argues Labor’s Cassandra Wilkinson.

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WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE: Disgraced Liberal ex-MP Andrew Olexander still going for the Green

VEXNEWS — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:59:42 +0000

Notorious former Liberal MP Andrew Olexander continues to give his love to the Greensparty, this week pledging to support their candidates in City of Melbourne council elections despite being on a $60,000 parliamentary pension for life courtesy of his …

VOLCANIC MAGNER: Serial Greensparty candidate Damian Magner explodes in denial over Greens council endorsement

VEXNEWS — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:48:11 +0000

Northern suburbs Greensparty apparatchik Damian Magner exploded at a Banyule council pre-poll voting facility this week, furiously denying any connection with the increasingly on-the-nose extreme-left ostensibly environmentalist party. Locals say he's a neighbourhood Pol Pot.

CAN THEY HACK IT? Victoria Police refer Age hacking evidence to federal prosecutors

VEXNEWS — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:56:25 +0000

While the wheels of justice in white-collar crime turn slowly, it really does seem The Age Three (Royce Millar, Nick McKenzie and Ben Schneiders) are in all sorts of hot water after Victoria Police referred evidence of their allegedly cyber-criminal activities to federal prosecutors. Many believe The Age's hacking scandal could be just as ugly for the newspaper as the UK tabloid hacking scandals that have seen some of Britain's media elite on trial for serious crimes.

GREENSPARTY THATCHERITE: Council wannabe Eve Fisher wants to slash council jobs, services and staff wages

VEXNEWS — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:10:19 +0000

The Greensparty continue to get found out, with candidates and policies that barely withstand any scrutiny. In surfer haven Torquay, an officially endorsed Greensparty candidate wants to slash Surf Coast Shire jobs, the services council staff provide and even staff wages in a frenzy most unexpected from the party that pretends to be more "progressive" than the major parties.

CUNNING STUNT: Liberals in Melbourne inner-city run anti-development front group “Unchain” in alliance with Greensparty

VEXNEWS — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:43:12 +0000

The sneakiness of some involved in local council elections is a delight to behold. In Port Phillip council, famous for hiring a white witch management consultant, local Liberals have seized control of anti-development community group and even do preference deals with the Greensparty in order to get elected in an area full of herbal lefties and loud objectors to development of any kind.