Takedowns
THANKS SARAH: An ABC journalist’s conduct ensured approval of controversial development proposal
The ABC’s Sarah Farnsworth couldn’t have done more to ensure government approval of a radical series of controversial changes to Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel.
BULLY: Angry Anton and Rampaging Rick Phillips face the music
South Australia’s foulest family, the Phillips-Chantelois clan, descended even deeper into the sewer yesterday as Anton Phillips attended court to face serious aggravated assault and weapons possession charges. The bullying young menace and his psychopath father appeared to have more excuses than brain cells.
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.
HECKLER: Liberal MP crashes Lord’s Prayer with insulting political jibe
Victorian Upper house Liberal deputy leader Wendy Lovell is in trouble after she heckled during the Lord’s Prayer in Parliament today.
POINTS THE FINGER: Desperate Greens party leader blames Rupert Murdoch and political opponents for his own “votes for killers” policy
The Tasmanian Greens party leader Nick McKim was caught out yesterday with interstate News Limited newspapers reporting on his plan to give convicted killers and pedophiles the vote while they serve their sentence. It’s a radical and extremist plan and yet the Mercury newspaper in Hobart seems very reluctant to hold him to account. That didn’t stop McKim lashing out at the Mercury’s proprietor Rupert Murdoch, accusing him of trying to do the Tasmanian Greens in via the seemingly very indirect means of interstate newspapers. With mental leaps like that it seems McKim is not only leading the Greens but is smoking the green too.
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.
RISKY BUSINESS: Government supports film festival featuring porn, torture, rape and risky HIV behaviours
A state-sponsored film festival in Melbourne intends to exhibit films well outside the community standard. No doubt the controversy will boost their sales but is it undermining community support for public funding of the arts?
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