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

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.

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

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.

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

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…

MAKING LINDSAY HISTORY: Greens party spending up big to oust Australia’s finance minister

The Greens political party are deadly serious about ousting Australia’s finance minister Lindsay Tanner from his marginal inner-city federal seat of Melbourne. Their candidate Adam Bandt makes a non-specific lifestyle focused pitch that might well work with switched-off voters…

THE GREEN POLICE: What Bob Brown’s regime would look like

Audi’s take on the Green Police or What Bob Brown’s regime would look like:

POLITICKING: Victorian Governor called on to resign over political campaigning furore

Victoria’s Governor is in the middle of a political storm about whether he should be campaigning over climate change at an event described as a “mass convergence.” Liberal MP Bernie Finn says he can be a climate activist or the Governor. Not both.

IN THE WILDERNESS: Taxpayer backed green group milks millions while hiding the darkness within

The Wilderness Society is being ripped apart in an internal crisis. We shed light on the festering mass of ugly intrigue that dominates the affairs of the once-militant group.

FAKERS: New Year brings new questions about Greens party

The ETS is looking like a potent form of political poison and not only for Kevin Rudd in this 2010 election year. In Victoria, the state government is having a crack at the Greens political party for wanting a more…

CURIOUSER: Militant Mighell looks for Liberal leadership on climate change

Looks like the colourful union boss Dean Mighell has ridden his one-trick Greens loving pony over to a Liberal field.

THIEVING GREENS: Study shows Green-product enthusiasts more likely to cheat and steal

A psychological study has revealed that after buying “green products” buyers are more likely to cheat and steal than the rest of us. Does this explain Climategate?