A STAR IS GORN: Rick Wallace flees Spring Street as spectre of Red Ted looms

The Australian’s rising star Rick Wallace has left the building (Parliament House Melbourne that is) and has been sent to Tokyo.

HULLSTOPIA: Hulls gets good run on making crims pay

We love highlighting some Rob Hulls’s silly media releases. But today he’s put out a good one. And got some good play for it too.

After a decade on the job as Attorney-General, he’s conducting a review into…

THE SILVER BULLET: Abbott considers immigration slash to cut carbon

Tony Abbott’s announcement today on climate change could be just the first step in trying to wrong-foot the Rudd government out of office. His closest advisers are contemplating delivering most of the carbon emissions cuts “for free” by slashing Australia’s current immigration intake.

DISCLAIMERS: Vic pollies deny responsibility for anything they say

Ted Baillieu launches a new website that he concedes could be choc-full of “errors and omissions…”

IS THE PARTY OVER FOR LABOR? State governments ready to fall in Tasmania, NSW, Queensland, with growing talk of SA and maybe Victoria

Are the Labor state government dominoes about to fall?