Labor
BOSSY: Internal Victorian ALP elections in Flinders under a cloud
On Melbourne’s outskirts, there’s a rotten little lefty borough in the ALP where things are done differently. Controversial practices in internal ALP elections seem set to be closely examined by Party authorities.
GAME ON: Caucus rebel(s) tell Canberra Times they’ll push Rudd out after next election
Someone has been very naughty in Canberra.
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.
RIGHT SPITE: The once great NSW Labor Right aint what it used to be
ALP NSW Right insiders are very angry about the mess Labor in NSW has been left in. They’re blaming Party president Bernie Riordan and federal minister Mark Arbib.
OFF MESSAGE: Nick Staikos freaks his fraction in Hotham falsehood furore
Victorian internal ALP elections are on. And it seems in the Hotham FEA, truth is the first casualty of war with ex-local councillor Nick Staikos pulling the trigger, much to the irritation of his own NUW fractional comrades.
A LAW UNTO ITSELF: Victoria’s OPI, Ombudsman and DPP must be brought to justice says retiring patriot Theophanous
Theo Theophanous retired from politics yesterday. One of the greats of his generation in politics, he didn’t disappoint with a courageous speech that reminded Victorians that every powerful government agency must be accountable for its actions, otherwise all freedom is at risk.
BATT BLAZE SPREADS: Arbib in firing line now because Garrett couldn’t spark a human reaction to an absurd charge
Peter Garrett is no more responsible for people being killed installing insulation than Tony Abbott is for the thirty thousand people killed by medical negligence in Australia while he was Health Minister. But his failure to respond passionately and angrily in his own defence against the absurd claim makes him politically unviable. He’ll probably limp on but the damage seems permanent. Meanwhile, Liberals are keen to give anyone else involved a real kicking and they’ve started with Mark Arbib.
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…
WHEN JACKIE MET ANNA: Queensland Premier’s little mate Jackie Trad is on the job
Labor used to accuse then Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen of looking after his mates. Anna Bligh embraces a tradition as old as Queensland politics itself, but in a uniquely modern way probably not imagined by its founding fathers.
PHOTO FURORE: Is the Courier-Mail sitting on pics of Anna Bligh kissing chicks?
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is said to be keeping a secret and the daily newspaper in Brisbane seems keen to help.
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