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Sharri Markson
Sharri MarksonSky News Host

Sharri Markson is the host of ‘Sharri’ on Sky News Australia, Monday-Thursday at 5pm. She is a two-time Walkley Award winner, the recipient of the 2018 Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism, the winner of the 2020 News Award for Investigative Journalism, a winner of four Kennedy Awards – for Journalist of the Year, Political Journalist of the Year, Columnist of the Year and Scoop of the Year – and joint winner of the 2019 Press Gallery Political Journalist of the Year award. Sharri was previously The Daily Telegraph’s National Political Editor, The Australian’s Media Editor, CLEO magazine editor, News Editor at Seven News and Chief of Staff and political reporter at The Sunday Telegraph.

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Treasurer Scott Morrison, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne during a division in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, August 22, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

PM’s demand to ministers: Don’t vote against me

MALCOLM Turnbull has asked the ministers who offered their resignation to pledge not to challenge or vote against him in any future spills. One conservative MP said Mr Turnbull’s demand was like Kim Jong-un’s bid to be the supreme leader for life.

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Pam Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop holding a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Deputy PM Michael McCormack and Deputy NSW Premier John Barilaro at the National Party of Australia, NSW annual general conference in Cowra, NSW. Picture Kym Smith                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Deputy PM Michael McCormack and Deputy NSW Premier John Barilaro at the National Party of Australia, NSW annual general conference in Cowra, NSW. Picture Kym Smith

Gladys ‘deeply disappointed’ with leadership spill

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has conceded the leadership merry go round in Canberra had “diminished” the nation’s top office. Peter Dutton hasn’t ruled out a second challenge but Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pleaded with Liberal colleagues for unity saying disunity is death.

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Tony Abbott during Question Time in the House of Representatives Chamber at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Deputy PM Michael McCormack and Deputy NSW Premier John Barilaro at the National Party of Australia, NSW annual general conference in Cowra, NSW. Picture Kym Smith                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Deputy PM Michael McCormack and Deputy NSW Premier John Barilaro at the National Party of Australia, NSW annual general conference in Cowra, NSW. Picture Kym Smith

‘Toxic’ brawl looms over emissions target law

PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull will today vow to lock in as law a climate change emissions reduction target of 26 per cent — nine years after energy policy saw him rolled as Opposition Leader. An explosive party room meeting is expected today.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten

Why attacking the PM’s wealth won’t work

LABOR should give up trying to attack Malcolm Turnbull for his self-made fortune as it’s something the PM just isn’t embarrassed by — especially because he donates every cent of his salary, writes Sharri Markson.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a press conference after meeting with local Canberra constituents to discuss the to discuss the GovernmentÕs income tax relief plan at Urban Pantry Cafe  in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Turnbull gives his salary to charity

PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull essentially donates every cent of his $500,000 annual salary to charity — blunting Labor’s attacks around his personal wealth and that he’s company tax cuts are motivated by personal greed.

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Bill Shorten in the same boat regarding immigration policy as Senator Robert Taft of the U.S. in 1939. Artwork by John Tiedemann

Bill Shorten’s asylum problem

BILL Shorten and potential leadership challenger Anthony Albanese face a dilemma as many on the left of the Labor Party push for a softer line on the detention centres.

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Build-to-Rent Project in Double Bay

Shorten’s foreign tax cut ‘complete mockery’

TREASURER Scott Morrison has slammed Labor for calling for a massive tax cut to foreigners and big business to build and rent out apartment blocks while blocking company tax cuts and increasing the tax on families who buy an investment flat.

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Screen grabs of Vikki Campion and Barnaby Joyce during their first interview since the birth of their baby - interviewed on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night program, 03 June 2018. Credit: Channel 7

The questions we still have after Barnaby’s chat

CHANNEL 7’s tell-all with Barnaby Joyce was both compelling and excruciating. But it failed to deliver any substantive answers to the questions Joyce has been hiding from ever since we first broke the news of his love child with Vikki Campion.

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