THE LEAK: The OC Exclusively Reveals The Explosive Minutes From Victorian Labor's Marginal Seat MP's Meeting

Spearheaded by the feisty Simon Troeth, Red Ted Baillieu's media adviser with a flair for the dramatic, the Victorian Tories are picking up the pace a little, if today's efforts are any guide. In today's Question Time, the normally pedestrian Liberal leader ambushed the government with questions that referenced what they claim to be "minutes" of a confidential meeting of Labor caucus members discussing electoral strategy.

The notes show a number of Labor members of parliament complaining about various aspects of ministerial staff arrogance and incompetence.

Click below to see the typed up version of what they say are "leaked" notes from a meeting of Labor marginal seat MPs which they eagerly distributed to inquisitive newshounds today.

The nature of the notes suggests that they might well have been left lying around - in the style of the missing notebook saga of 2006 - as they don't seem to particularly make any one of the players look bad.

Flies on the wall of Treachery Place say that the Chairman of the Labor marginal seats MP's meeting, Don Nardella was summoned for an afternoon crisis meeting with the Premier to discuss the consequences of the leak.

The notes show the Premier's staff outlining methods by which MP's might manipulate local media (with free lunch outings) and show the none-too-subtle profanity uttering Socialist Leftista Eltham MP Steve Herbert facetiously requesting "any chance of tours/intros" to the Premier's office which he asserts "seems out of bounds".

They show other marginal seat holders complaining that Ministers hog their limelight when doing local announcements, which is a backbencher complaint probably as old as Parliamentary politics itself.

Enjoy. All tips/ideas about who authored or even "leaked" these notes will be gratefully received. Anyone fessing up will be advised not to do so within a five hundred mile radius of JB, who we hear was rampagingly mad about the stupidity of the whole thing this afternoon.




Game on.