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COMPROMISED MARRIAGE: Labor appeases Greens risking Katter’s wrath while Libs complain about Adam Bandt’s lady friend from the PMO
The Greens party promised to support the formation of a Labor government before the election. After the election, they went all sneaky and demanded a few trinkets in return for their Green love. Meanwhile, Liberals complain that the presence of Adam Bandt’s girlfriend in the Prime Minister’s office suggests there a very close ties between the two parties that meant they never had a chance.
TRUE BLUE: Liberal Lord Mayor of Melbourne Robert Doyle says it was a “disgrace” the Libs helped elect the extreme-left Greens party
Liberal Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has slammed the decision of party power-brokers to help elect the extreme-left Greens party in the federal seat of Melbourne.
WORLD FAMOUS: Bob Katter’s hat makes front page of New York Times website
Popular country independent Bob Katter is having a Crocodile Dundee style appeal in US news reports attempting to make sense of what’s going in Australia right now. The NY Times analysis of the situation is pretty good, recalling…
LIMBO NATION: Four newly elected Lib MPs could be disqualified
Just when you thought the dysfunction in Club Fed had got beyond a joke, there are four newly elected Liberal MPs who could be disqualified for breaching an obscure and old-fashioned provision of the Australian constitution. If thrown out, there could be four by-elections that could determine who governs Australia.
BIG MOUTH: Praying for Liberal victory in Dunkley
VEXNEWS cheers on Liberal and Labor patriots on both sides and consider ourselves equal opportunity slaggers of the prominent but having pledged to ride a bicycle (we don’t own one) wearing boardshorts (we don’t own a pair)…
IT’S RAINING ETHICS: Lobby storm-cloud forms over NSW Liberals glory hole
Barry O’Farrell is New South Wales Premier in waiting. Lobbyists are waiting too and are set to make tens of millions of dollars from the changing of the guard.
TROUBLE IN PARADISE: Greens party rips itself apart over money and ad agency
Another day, another embarrassing leak from the Greens party. This time, they’re ripping shreds off their ad agency Make Believe, doing sleazy preference deals that party leader Bob Brown lied about, fighting over money and intimidating opponents.
CANCEROUS: Greens party policy would kill cancer patients including kids
Labor has badly neglected to closely scrutinise the policies of their extreme-left opponents who wish to run them out of the inner-city, the Greens. Many of these policies are ideologically-driven, indulgent, irresponsible and downright scary. One of their policy commitments is to shut down the only facility in the country that makes drugs that combat some types of cancer. If the Greens get their way, there’ll be cancer patients – including kids – who die as a result of their ideological excesses.
BIG AUSTRALIA: Tony Abbott wants mega immigration programme with Sydney and Melbourne to grow 8 million strong
While some are keen to tar Tony Abbott’s Liberals with an anti-immigration brush, the truth is Tony Abbott has long supported a big immigration programme to underpin the growth of Australia to a population around 35 million strong.
STANDING UP: One man is willing to call last drinks on out-of-control Greens party
If no-one criticises the extreme-left Greens for the crazy, bad policies they have and the unimpressive candidates they put up, their vote will go up. If the major parties continue to give them preferences, their candidates will get elected. One senior Liberal has said enough’s enough.
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