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Joyce launches extraordinary attack on 'miserable' Australia Day date campaigners
"They don't like Christmas, they don't like Australia Day, they're just miserable gutted people and I wish they would crawl under a rock and hide".
Fergus Hunter is a political reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House
"They don't like Christmas, they don't like Australia Day, they're just miserable gutted people and I wish they would crawl under a rock and hide".
"God save our gracious queen! Long live our noble queen! God save the queen!"
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, dead as we know it ten years after negotiations began, was designed to create major changes in the economies of the 12 signatory countries, including Australia.
They were digital team who figured out how Donald Trump could win - and they're now eyeing off Australia.
"We will spend what we need to spend to get this job done," former prime minister Tony Abbott declared in March 2014, shortly after the multi-country effort to find recently downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Transport Minister Darren Chester says the underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could be re-established but only if compelling new information came to light that pinpointed the location of the aircraft.
One Nation senator Brian Burston has labelled Centrelink's contentious debt-recovery system "malicious and bordering on the criminal", adding Pauline Hanson's party to the chorus of concern surrounding the automated clawback.
"The decision to suspend the underwater search has not been taken lightly nor without sadness."
Fairfield City Council, which welcomed 3000 humanitarian arrivals last year, has been told to expect the same again.
Former prime minister Paul Keating has rounded on the incoming US secretary of state Rex Tillerson, accusing him of threatening to bring on war with China by making "ludicrous" comments on the tense South China Sea dispute.
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