VEXED: If a joke about boat-phone is big news, an inappropriate use of kids to promote sex should be too

Liberals complain that the Press Gallery is being mean to Tony Abbott and kind to Julia Gillard. We’re not so sure about that, but Nick Mack is.

PATRIOT NATION: Australians love their country more than anyone else in the world

Australians have higher admiration and respect for, trust and pride in their own country than the people of any other nation.

REVOLUTION: The Liberals squeeze some vision juice from Rudd’s mandarin

The Liberals and former Labor leader Paul Keating have been demanding “vision” and a “narrative” from PM Kevin Rudd. VEXNEWS’ Christian Lyons has a good look at the vision thing and wonders whether today’s effort at the National Press Club will be enough.

SIMPLE: Did Garrie Hutchinson show propaganda films of Australia’s enemies or not?

The Sunday Age’s grouchy international affairs reporter Tom Hyland has desperately attempted to cobble together what’s left of the reputation of disgraced and deposed former state government veterans’ heritage officer and former draft dodger, Garrie Hutchinson.

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LITTLE MAN SYNDROME: Alan Howe speaks up for jailed white supremacist neo-Nazi scribe and Communist China

Melbourne’s Herald Sun is the leading capital city daily in the nation. Yet it indulges one of its senior editorial executives Alan Howe with an occasionally embarrassing column where he struggles to reconcile his one-time passion for journalism with an insatiable desire to praise odious regimes and powerful mates.

INTREPID: The Age’s brave explorer Shaun Carney discovers another world

The Age’s Shaun Carney has been living beyond enemy lines in the patriotic territory of outer suburban Carrum Downs. His reports are shocking Age readers.

GREENISTAS: News Corporation goes enviro

VEXNEWS has been invited to nominate entries for the News Corporation Green Awards.

ZAPPED: Premier Iemma’s foes flick the switch to surrender

NSW Premier Morris Iemma has seen off a caucus and party rebellion over electricity privatisation and is now keen to focus on the future.

DOING A COREY: Pyne invites 1159 of his closest personal friends to Senator’s small office

South Australian Liberal frontbencher Christopher Pyne has failed to learn the lesson made legend by Melbourne teen hoon Corey Delaney: be careful about inviting too many people around.

OPINION: A veteran wonders why Garrie Hutchinson is a protected species

I think the anger at Garrie comes from veterans, quite rightly, who believe he has positioned himself as the major interpreter of the ANZAC legend, which was forged by men and women serving in uniform facing adversity.