VEXNEWS 2010©

FRIENDLY FIRE: Mercury aims at Labor over Greens party drugs scandal but hits ‘Slick’ Nick McKim

VEXNEWS — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:08:09 +0000

The Tasmanian Greens have been caught with their policy trousers down, exposed on decriminalising drugs and plans to give votes to murderers and rapists while they're serving their sentence in jail.

SILLY: Brisbane councillor Jane Prentice threatens VEXNEWS

VEXNEWS — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:47:31 +0000

Brisbane Liberal councillor Jane Prentice was recently worried at some silly comments that appeared on VEXNEWS under the not-particularly-identifying ‘Jane P.’

We were a little confused what this person was going on about when she rang as she didn’t…

INSATIABLE: Adelaide’s biggest publicity whore just keeps going and going and going

VEXNEWS — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:06:35 +0000

The South Australian election is on Saturday and the best thing about it is that whatever the result it looks like grubby publicity whore Michelle Chantelois and her convicted criminal supposedly cuckolded husband Rick Phillips will return to the sewer from which they slithered.

BOSSY: Internal Victorian ALP elections in Flinders under a cloud

VEXNEWS — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:14:01 +0000

On Melbourne's outskirts, there's a rotten little lefty borough in the ALP where things are done differently. Controversial practices in internal ALP elections seem set to be closely examined by Party authorities.

GREENS EXTREMES: Campaign video highlights Tasmanians could wake up to a nightmare next week

VEXNEWS — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:23:15 +0000

Despite having politically extreme plans and being set to nobble stable government in Tasmania, most of the local press have let the Greens political party off very lightly. But a grassroots rebellion is forming from Labor and Liberal supporters, workers and employers, worried about the damage they could do to the Apple Isle.

CEREMONY WARS: Hume councillor’s prayer boycott saddens Christians

VEXNEWS — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:30:42 +0000

Sunbury conservative councillor Jack Ogilvie is regarded as a good bloke. But his long-running boycott of the commencement prayer at council meetings is attracting critics who say it's a symptom of his political alliance with Labor's Socialist Left. A good sport, he answered VEXNEWS impertinent questions on the issue.

MORE JOY: World’s best political ad-maker has another go

VEXNEWS — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:13:31 +0000

The brilliant Republican campaign consultant Fred Davis – the man who brought the world the brilliantly memorable Demon Sheep ad has done it again, this time taking aim at the California Democrats Senator Barbara Boxer and making…

GAME ON: Caucus rebel(s) tell Canberra Times they’ll push Rudd out after next election

VEXNEWS — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:26:09 +0000

Someone has been very naughty in Canberra.

REVEALED: Tasmanian Greens politician told Parliament heroin “prohibition is not the solution”

VEXNEWS — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:43:32 +0000

A senior Tasmanian Greens politician - and lover of the current party leader - has revealed her pro heroin legalisation beliefs. They're in conflict with stated party policy leading many to wonder what else are they hiding and being allowed to hide by friendly left-wing Hobart journalists.

IN THE PHILLIPOU: The ugly face of Palestinian errorism unmasked

VEXNEWS — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:17:52 +0000

Nearly every morning before the sun rises, an elderly woman jumps online to spew out hundreds of words of hate attacking Jews and Israel. It's a bad, sad and mad tale of woe.

THE FALLOUT: Johnson fights to survive fundraising allegations

VEXNEWS — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:02:53 +0000

Michael Johnson's backers insist he has nothing to hide over political fundraising and that his internal enemies are out to get him.

CANBERRA BIFFO: Cooney invokes the spirit of Latham to crunch the faction

VEXNEWS — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:06:20 +0000

ACT Labor Right hard-man Michael Cooney won the endorsement of the Centre Coalition faction for Labor preselection in Canberra. But the way he did it could cost him everything, faction insiders have revealed.

GONER: Federal MP Michael Johnson under investigation by Liberal and LNP hierarchy

VEXNEWS — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:52:53 +0000

A controversial Liberal federal MP from Queensland Michael Johnson is being investigated by his own party over his prolific fundraising. He's telling friends he's thinking of quitting the party and running as an independent in the marginal seat of Ryan. LNP insiders tell VEXNEWS he's in all sorts of trouble.

HECKLER: Liberal MP crashes Lord’s Prayer with insulting political jibe

VEXNEWS — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:04:04 +0000

Victorian Upper house Liberal deputy leader Wendy Lovell is in trouble after she heckled during the Lord's Prayer in Parliament today.

POOR QUALITY: The Age rebadges Victoria’s upper house

VEXNEWS — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:25:36 +0000

Geniuses operating at The Age’s online bunker have renamed Victoria’s upper house Legislative Council the “Senate.”

Increasingly, print journalists at Fairfax and elsewhere are concerned about the differing standards at the online operations that bear their masthead’s…

RAMADGE BE PRAISED: The Age finally draws the line at Deveny’s anti-Catholic bull

VEXNEWS — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:09:24 +0000

Catherine Deveny wrote a column so full of sectarian anti-Catholic hatred that even The Age wouldn't publish it. The well-paid, well-connected and powerful victim of patriarchy is unimpressed.

METHOD TO THE MONK’S MADNESS: Insiders damn Abbott on parental leave but punters might lap it up

VEXNEWS — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:05:58 +0000

Tony Abbott's bold decision to pick a fight with big business over the funding of paid parental leave might seem crazy but in a political climate where his choices were to lose gracefully or to change the game, his decision makes perfect sense.

POINTS THE FINGER: Desperate Greens party leader blames Rupert Murdoch and political opponents for his own “votes for killers” policy

VEXNEWS — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:50:08 +0000

The Tasmanian Greens party leader Nick McKim was caught out yesterday with interstate News Limited newspapers reporting on his plan to give convicted killers and pedophiles the vote while they serve their sentence. It's a radical and extremist plan and yet the Mercury newspaper in Hobart seems very reluctant to hold him to account. That didn't stop McKim lashing out at the Mercury's proprietor Rupert Murdoch, accusing him of trying to do the Tasmanian Greens in via the seemingly very indirect means of interstate newspapers. With mental leaps like that it seems McKim is not only leading the Greens but is smoking the green too.

DEADLY: Greens party to give killers, pedophiles the vote while they’re behind bars

VEXNEWS — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:08:59 +0000

The Greens party's decision to give mass murderer Martin Bryant the vote has caused outrage everywhere. Except at the Hobart Mercury where the hippies love to play the "Sound of Silence" whenever a negative story about the radical left party is talked about.

LET HIM LIVE: The sickening persecution of Brian Burke must end

VEXNEWS — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:08:07 +0000

The treatment of former WA Premier Brian Burke is nothing less than shameful.

RIGHT SPITE: The once great NSW Labor Right aint what it used to be

VEXNEWS — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:55:00 +0000

ALP NSW Right insiders are very angry about the mess Labor in NSW has been left in. They're blaming Party president Bernie Riordan and federal minister Mark Arbib.

KEYSTONE: AFP officers hit and run Israeli woman while probing passport puzzle

VEXNEWS — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:00:59 +0000

Credible reports that Australian Federal Police officers collided with an Israeli bicyclist and then fled the scene of the accident highlight the inherent silliness of their passport probe in Israel.

ON THE MOVE: State press gallery faces homelessness

Andrew Landeryou — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:49:05 +0000

The Victorian Parliamentary press gallery enjoys a splendidly spacious taxpayer funded office within spitting distance of the state government bunker at 1 Treasury Place and a quick power-walk up the road to Parliament House.

The facility replaced the tiny, cramped…

UNFAIRFAX: Laws broken in The Age’s dodgy contest

VEXNEWS — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:47:50 +0000

The Age is breaking the law in a desperate attempt at building a customer database to spam with indecent proposals.

FOOLISH: Brumby under fire for leaving pedophiles with more legal rights than local councillors and workers

VEXNEWS — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:57:45 +0000

The Brumby government has been accused of leaving pedophiles and murderers more legal rights than local councillors and their staff.

CHURLISH: Sydney Morning Herald’s bruising attack on Howard over ICC backfires

VEXNEWS — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:53:20 +0000

Peter Roebuck's vicious campaign against former Prime Minister John Howard's bid to run world cricket has failed. But it could have been worse.

IRRITATING LITTLE BIRD WITH FLEAS: Sparrow now on ABC site, Beecher not amused

VEXNEWS — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:18:53 +0000

The ABC Crikey killer site “The Drum” has now taken publishing the predictably anti-American pro-Taliban musings of the despicable Jeff Sparrow. The boring rants of the once-violent Melbourne University anarchist used to appear in Crikey. Sparrow now presents as…

OFF MESSAGE: Nick Staikos freaks his fraction in Hotham falsehood furore

VEXNEWS — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:34:52 +0000

Victorian internal ALP elections are on. And it seems in the Hotham FEA, truth is the first casualty of war with ex-local councillor Nick Staikos pulling the trigger, much to the irritation of his own NUW fractional comrades.

RISKY BUSINESS: Government supports film festival featuring porn, torture, rape and risky HIV behaviours

VEXNEWS — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:04:41 +0000

A state-sponsored film festival in Melbourne intends to exhibit films well outside the community standard. No doubt the controversy will boost their sales but is it undermining community support for public funding of the arts?

BUSTED: Potentially dangerous hippy cell operating on Gold Coast as region braces for tsunami

VEXNEWS — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:54:28 +0000

As a potentially devastating tsunami threatens to advance the Gold Coast to the Stone Age, our Broadbeach correspondent has busted a cell of hippies operating in what is called in intelligence circles ‘open cover.’

Nanny state measures including signs instructing…