THE FALLOUT: Johnson fights to survive fundraising allegations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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