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French diplomat in Australia shamed by thieving French backpackers

VEXNEWS — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:30:22 +0000

An amusing headline “French nickers cause a stink down under” makes light of a serious situation involving rampaging French backpacker brats stealing there way through Australia to the extent that shoplifting is referred to by some as “French shopping” according …

Imams pray at Auschwitz for Holocaust dead

VEXNEWS — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:05:39 +0000

From all over the world they came, Muslim leaders, Imams from Bosnia, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the US and knelt in prayer for the Holocaust dead at the site of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.…

Socialist nirvana Venezuela runs out of toilet paper

VEXNEWS — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:22:56 +0000

Venezuela has run out of toilet paper. Socialism is to blame.…

JAKE THE SNAKE DEAD: Tragic end to Victoria’s seediest and sleaziest sex shakedown saga

VEXNEWS — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:51:10 +0000

A sad end to a sorry saga. The bad lad who cost a Victorian MP his political career by attempting to shake him down for $15,000 with a gay sex tape is dead, aged 29 years old.

FURORE: Academic study says Aussie journos are a bunch of lefties, especially at the ABC

VEXNEWS — Mon, 20 May 2013 02:06:59 +0000

A university study on the political inclinations of Australian journos has caused quite a stir, especially its findings on the ABC's editorial staff.

Forces loyal to Syria’s Assad regime and its Jihadist opponents clash – in Australia

VEXNEWS — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:43:10 +0000

Australia is a long distance from Syria and yet some Australians are taking the civil war there all too seriously……

THE AGE HACKING SCANDAL: The Age’s criminal defendants disrespect court with “no-show”

VEXNEWS — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:22:17 +0000

Charged with crimes that could get them two years imprisonment, three arrogant Fairfax journos and a senior Greensparty operative and state government bureaucrat didn't bother attending the Melbourne Magistrates Court for the first hearing Thursday.

Qantas will fly 1M+ Australians to Dubai this year – is it safe for women?

VEXNEWS — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:40:29 +0000

Because Qantas and Emirates have done a deal that means Australians flying to Europe will stop – even if just in transit – in Dubai.

But as this Seven “Sunday Night” broadcast illustrates, it isn’t safe for women there. If …

UN urges people to eat insects to fight world hunger

VEXNEWS — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:30:06 +0000

UN urges people to eat insects to fight world hunger…

Victorian Parliament House overrun by vermin #springst

VEXNEWS — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:46:37 +0000

The magnificent old Victorian Parliament House on Spring Street is undergoing renovations which have dislodged a mischief of mice and/or a pack of rats which the Legislative Council president Bruce Atkinson has said requires urgent action.…

PROTESTS TOO MUCH: Lefty Jonathan Green insists his & ABC’s journalism is unbiased

Andrew Landeryou — Wed, 08 May 2013 23:47:26 +0000

Jonathan Green is far from the most odious of the ABCistas. But his insistence that his form of lefty journalism is impartial and all-knowing and that conservatives are ignorant and corrupted by propagandising is tiresome and clearly contradicted by the evidence.

Bernardi warns UKIP’s success shows how Libs could be outflanked #auspol

VEXNEWS — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:53:05 +0000

SA Liberal powerbroker Cory Bernardi has joined the fight over what kind of Coalition government there’ll be, if elected in September. He’s argued that the success of the UK Independence party shows that a conservative government that isn’t truly conservative …

Comrades Bramston & Kenny proven right in ‘Cut & Paste’ while lesser mortals are shamed #ausmedia

VEXNEWS — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:04:00 +0000

The PM’s bold attempted circuit-breaker public foreshadowing of the federal election date won much praise from the Canberra Press Gallery at the time.

The Australian’s Cut & Paste column today even-handedly reminds Fairfax and News Limited folk like Dennis Atkins …

ABETZ ASCENDANT: With frenemies like Alex Hawke, PM-to-be Tony Abbott is desperately going to need friends like Eric Abetz

Christian Lyons — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:26:55 +0000

Provoked by the editor's sympathies for Alex Hawke and the IPA's questioning of Tony Abbott's very generous paid-parental leave scheme that could give some families as much as $3000 a week of taxpayers' money to new parents to change nappies for six months, Christian Lyons has returned to argue for the pro-family policy and that the Liberal party - through champions like Eric Abetz - must keep the conservative faith against the rising ride of libertarianism in Australian conservative politics.

Greensparty Senator Whish-Wilson attacks model Jennifer Hawkins after she refuses request for private meeting #auspol

VEXNEWS — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:14:40 +0000

Former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins has been viciously slagged by ex-merchant banker turned Tasmanian Greensparty Senator and leadership aspirant Peter Whish-Wilson

The Senator’s cruel attacks (in an official media release produced by his taxpayer-funded office) included describing the …

Woman eaten by vultures within 45 minutes of falling off a cliff, leaving behind only bones, clothes & shoes

VEXNEWS — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:32:35 +0000

A French woman has been eaten by vultures within 45 minutes of falling off a cliff, leaving behind only bones, clothes & shoes.

It’s worth noting the role of regulators in this unpleasantness:

■ The vultures are a protected species;…

Lib MPs urge Tony Abbott to drop extravagant parental leave tax & spend plan #auspol

VEXNEWS — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:09:15 +0000

The next big battle in Australian politics isn’t so much between the Labor government and the conservative opposition, it’s among the conservatives about what sort of government they are going to be.

NSW federal MP Alex Hawke is breaking cover …

Tony Abbott is all for deregulation, against “nanny-state,” unless he thinks there’s a vote in it #auspol

VEXNEWS — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:17:20 +0000

You cannot bet with a bookie unless you’re over 18-years-old. And yet some – now including Tony Abbott – want to ban sports betting ads during sports broadcasts on television, but only if they contain “live-odds.”.

A random, ill-considered, …

SNEAK PREVIEW: VIP ALP must-see staffer diary sneak-leaked to VEXNEWS

VEXNEWS — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:46:05 +0000

Senior federal government staffers are Very Important People. Just ask them. Some are so important - and erudite - that they have at least a book or two in them. Dr Professor Jim Chalmers PhD (Hons) important work named in honour of a Springsteen anthem 'Glory Days', sneak-leaked to your favourite news source offers some important insights into what went wrong with the Labor government.

Protesters admits “there isn’t really any connection” between Max Brenner in Australia and Israel

VEXNEWS — Wed, 01 May 2013 22:10:23 +0000

“There isn’t really any connection” between Max Brenner chocolate shops and Israel, admits leading Israel-hater Patrick Harrison outside a protest.

Check out this excellent video.

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Ex Press TV reporter blows the whistle on Iran’s propaganda channel

VEXNEWS — Wed, 01 May 2013 21:56:04 +0000

“When Vexnews wrote about Edwina Storie, the news reached Persian websites and exploded like a bomb on social media…”…

BRING IT ON: Iran declares war on VEXNEWS

VEXNEWS — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:16:22 +0000

The official organ of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Press TV, has hilariously denounced VEXNEWS as a tool of "Western imperialism and global Zionism" for uncovering their Sydney correspondent, Edwina Storie's illustrious history of glamour modelling. Are you ready to rumble?

Man loses life savings on carnival game

VEXNEWS — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:32:01 +0000

A man lost his life savings of $2600 playing a game in a travelling carnival, having won only a large-sized grinning stuffed banana with dreadlocks. Naturally, none of it is his fault and he is contemplating a lawsuit.…

Public transport lobby opposes making service cheaper for outer suburban residents #springst

VEXNEWS — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:17:59 +0000

You’d think a lefty public transport group would support moves to make it less expensive for outer suburban travellers to use the service. Think again.

Daniel Bowen, a much-quoted spokesdude for the Public Transport Users Association in Melbourne, even managed …

Sydney Uni professor implicated in mass organ theft from executed prisoners in China

VEXNEWS — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:26:58 +0000

China’s not the only country that executes prisoners. But it is the only in the habit of making the family pay for the bullet that kills the prisoner. And it is the only one that systematically harvests the organs of …

Fairfax dissident says he’s being targeted with physical attacks #ausmedia

VEXNEWS — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:27:51 +0000

A Fairfax reporter, Paddy Manning, sacked for speaking out against current management practices, says he has been “targeted” after his car’s tyres were slashed twice and a possible culprit attacked a neighbour with a hammer..…

“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.

James Ashby’s law firm scolded by Federal Court after leaving sex harrassment accuser financially devastated #auspol

VEXNEWS — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:09:52 +0000

The law firm Harmers that represented James Ashby in his clearly politically motivated litigation against former Speaker Peter Slipper last year has again been reprimanded by a Federal Court judge.

The firm insists it bankrolled its client’s case against Oracle …

Tony Abbott’s closest ally urges increase in GST #auspol

VEXNEWS — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:21:01 +0000

Without Nick Michin, Tony Abbott would never have got to be party leader, so his call to broaden and increase the GST is a significant clue to the direction of Coalition policy.

While Labor will try to exploit …

NEVER-ENDING STORIE: Our Edwina Storie yarn goes off and so do her tweets

VEXNEWS — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:55:40 +0000

Edwina Storie, the Iranian regime's young propagandist operating out of Sydney, is covering up parts of her history of online romping. Is it too little too late for PressTV's first glamour model correspondent?