Politics
SURROUNDED: Senior Liberal official caught up in Colombo crisis *UPDATED
The federal Liberal party deputy director James McGrath has been in Sri Lanka campaigning for opposition leader General Sarath Fonseka. Government troops have surrounded the hotel where the General’s campaign team is staying and friends back home are gravely worried. He has spoken with VEXNEWS indicating that not only is he alive and well but he’s in no mood to be intimidated by a government throwing its weight around.
THE PARTY’S OVER: Faulkner’s bid to make public pay for every political ad ailing
A scheme to hand over hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to political parties to bail them out of a donation drought appears to be in serious trouble. VEXNEWS celebrates the New Year by claiming more than our fair share of the credit.
ALL-CLEAR: Australia one of least corrupt countries in the world
Transparency International has found that Australia is one of the least corrupt countries in Earth. Would someone tell Fairfax journalists and the ABC?
DISTURBANCE IN THE NORTH: Bligh and Langbroek to walk the plank
The Queensland LNP and Labor are going to have new leaders, according to political insiders who say Premier Bligh and JP Langbroek are dead meat.
MUST-SEE: Four Corners probes Liberals on climate change
It hasn’t taken former Labor party boss Stephen Newnham’s new company long to be making waves. Tonight on Four Corners, his new venture in partnership with former senior Liberal staffer Rick Brown is playing a leading role analysing the political position of the Liberals on climate change.
GUARDED: Old bloke booted from Church property by bouncers
A split in the pro-life movement has prompted a heavy-handed reaction from the Catholic Church hierarchy, according to one side of the argument. In a move slammed by critics as an over-reaction, an elderly gentleman was booted from Church property by bouncers for handing someone a leaflet promoting a new rival organisation to the Right to Life.
COURT OUT: Labor veteran Laurie Ferguson weighs legal options over preselection
NSW Labor insiders say that the attempted shafting of long-time Labor federal MP Laurie Ferguson could end in court, if he’s not treated more respectfully.
UNDER SIEGE: Inside Nathan Rees’s bunker
Comparing folks with Hitler never grows old for some people. The bunker scene from Downfall has pinged some amusing targets though. Now it’s poor old Nathan Rees’s turn.
LIKE A WEED: Persistent Labor lefty Bob Debus wants to rule party
Former Rudd minister Bob Debus is meant to be retiring after long service in state and federal Parliament. But NSW Labor sources say the Hard Lefty wants a victory lap as Party President. He will be strongly opposed by patriotic forces.
NOT BUSY ENOUGH: Anthony Albanese boasts of undermining John Howard’s retirement job with NRL
A boastful Rudd Cabinet minister Anthony Albanese has left himself wide open to allegations he misused his power to carry out a political vendetta against former Prime Minister John Howard.
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