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Agriculture Minister David Littleproud has ordered an auditor-general review into water buybacks.
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Water buyback controversy

Queensland rubbishes Barnaby Joyce defence over water buybacks, as government announces audit

A Queensland government minister says a deal he proposed was vastly different and would have delivered twice as much water as that signed by then cabinet minister Barnaby Joyce.

  • by Nicole Hasham
Liberal Party federal treasurer Andrew Burnes
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Helloworld chief made $200,000 donation to Liberals during tender

  • by Patrick Begley
Barnaby Joyce is being urged from some to challenge party leader Michael McCormack
Water buyback controversy

'Not my job': Barnaby Joyce angrily rejects criticism over controversial water buyback

  • by Nicole Hasham
A federal Labor government would ban gay conversion therapy and introduce a dedicated LGBTI human rights commissioner.
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'Dangerous and discredited': Labor pledges to ban gay conversion therapy

  • by Farrah Tomazin
Bill Shorten says a Labor government will urge the Fair Work Commission to increase the minimum wage.
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Bill Shorten's plan to fast track wages boost

  • by Dana McCauley, Eryk Bagshaw and Shane Wright

Opinion & Perspectives

'We're exciting': Barnaby Joyce opts for sensation in spectacular interview

Michael Koziol
Michael Koziol

In a marathon radio interview, the former water minister lit up the airwaves with cornflake idioms, mixed metaphors and obfuscation.

Patricia Karvelas had Joyce on the air and on the ropes

Jenna Price
Jenna Price

If only the ABC broadcaster's ridiculous critics had waited a day.

Hateful bomb attacks are a sad day for humanity

To attack innocent worshippers and a church on any day, let alone Easter Sunday, is an act of pure cowardice and hate.

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Federal

Agriculture Minister David Littleproud has ordered an auditor-general review into water buybacks.
Breaking
Water buyback controversy

Queensland rubbishes Barnaby Joyce defence over water buybacks, as government announces audit

A Queensland government minister says a deal he proposed was vastly different and would have delivered twice as much water as that signed by then cabinet minister Barnaby Joyce.

  • by Nicole Hasham
Bill Shorten says he will not be "bullied" on Adani.
Australia votes

'I'm not going to be bullied': Bill Shorten warns on Adani

Labor leader Bill Shorten has again refused to rule out a review of the Morrison government's decision to approve the project. 

  • by Dana McCauley
Bill Shorten says a Labor government will urge the Fair Work Commission to increase the minimum wage.
Australia votes

Bill Shorten's plan to fast track wages boost

  • by Dana McCauley, Eryk Bagshaw and Shane Wright
Barnaby Joyce is being urged from some to challenge party leader Michael McCormack
Water buyback controversy

'Not my job': Barnaby Joyce angrily rejects criticism over controversial water buyback

  • by Nicole Hasham
Patricia Karvelas and Barnaby Joyce duelled for 30 minutes over the controversial $80 million water buy back.
Analysis
Water buyback controversy

'We're exciting': Barnaby Joyce opts for sensation in spectacular interview

  • by Michael Koziol

NSW

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Victoria

Darren Bennetts and members of Friends of Stony Creek. They say their creek continues to be contaminated by industrial chemical spills.
Fire

'Is it a creek or a drain?' Waste spills harm already devastated creek

  • by Clay Lucas
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Liberal Party

Lib MP joins protest against oil drilling in Great Australian Bight, defying colleagues

  • by Benjamin Preiss
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Electricity

Key bushfire safety project faces yet another big cost blowout

  • by Adam Carey

Queensland

Then-assistant commssioner Katarina Carroll took a leading role in preparations for 2014's G20 summit in Brisbane.
Queensland Police

Katarina Carroll to be Queensland's first female police commissioner

  • by Felicity Caldwell
Food safety

Queensland government slaps ban on junk food ads

  • by Sonia Kohlbacher
Healthcare

Fears allowing pharmacists to dispense UTI drugs could boost 'super bugs'

  • by Felicity Caldwell

ACT

ACT Supreme Court chief justice Terence Higgins was to be the ACT's integrity commissioner.
ACT government

Barr slams delay to integrity commissioner search

  • by Andrew Brown
Crime

Sharp rise in serious incidents at Bimberi

  • by Daniella White
Gaming & wagering

Clubs to chip in thousands of dollars to new diversification fund

  • by Katie Burgess

Western Australia

Police are investigating two murders in WA.
Crime

WA homicide squad probe separate Easter weekend murders

  • by staff writers
Australia votes

Andrew Hastie's campaign bus survives 'dead of night' arson attack

  • by Nathan Hondros
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Billions of dollars and 'congestion busting' bluster jammed on WA's election highway

  • by Nathan Hondros and Hamish Hastie

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