TOMORROW’S NEWS LAST WEEK: VEXNEWS scoops all on Michael Johnson saga, we boast and read his last political rites

VEXNEWS exclusively broke the story of an internal party investigation into federal Liberal MP Michael Johnson over fundraising. We said then he was a poltical goner and by his own description his activities appear – at best – dubious.

FAMILY OF MENACE: Rick Phillips and Michelle Chantelois’s son Anton Phillips in court over assault and weapons charges

South Australia’s most obviously dysfunctional family can now add another claim to infamy, Rick Phillips and Michelle Chantelois’s son Anton Phillips could be sent to jail after being charged with aggravated assault and carrying offensive weapons including spear, a knife, a baseball bat and a hammer. VEXNEWS can exclusively reveal the troubled lad has boasted about his father’s attack on SA Premier Mike Rann, and says things on his Facebook page too racy to repeat on our front page.

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.

INSATIABLE: Adelaide’s biggest publicity whore just keeps going and going and going

The South Australian election is on Saturday and the best thing about it is that whatever the result it looks like grubby publicity whore Michelle Chantelois and her convicted criminal supposedly cuckolded husband Rick Phillips will return to the sewer from which they slithered.

GAME ON: Caucus rebel(s) tell Canberra Times they’ll push Rudd out after next election

Someone has been very naughty in Canberra.

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.

UNFAIRFAX: Laws broken in The Age’s dodgy contest

The Age is breaking the law in a desperate attempt at building a customer database to spam with indecent proposals.

CHURLISH: Sydney Morning Herald’s bruising attack on Howard over ICC backfires

Peter Roebuck’s vicious campaign against former Prime Minister John Howard’s bid to run world cricket has failed. But it could have been worse.

IRRITATING LITTLE BIRD WITH FLEAS: Sparrow now on ABC site, Beecher not amused

The ABC Crikey killer site “The Drum” has now taken publishing the predictably anti-American pro-Taliban musings of the despicable Jeff Sparrow. The boring rants of the once-violent Melbourne University anarchist used to appear in Crikey. Sparrow now presents as…