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Louise Milligan.

Louise Milligan’s pivot from investigative journalist to fiction writer

The investigative reporter pulls back the curtain on crime, the media and policing in her compelling first novel, Pheasants Nest.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

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Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has announced an overhaul of secrecy provisions that includes greater protection of journalists.

Attorney-General must approve journalist prosecutions under major secrecy overhaul

Journalists will not be prosecuted for breaching certain secrecy laws without the intervention of the Attorney-General, as part of a legal overhaul that will see criminal liability stripped from almost a fifth of Commonwealth of secrecy offences.

  • Angus Thompson
Advance Australia national director Gerard Benedet says his group speaks for mainstream Australians.

Pharmacy Guild promotes Advance Australia founder to CEO

Gerard Benedet, who ran conservative activist group Advance, will step up as the all-powerful Pharmacy Guild’s chief executive.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Christian Porter discontinues defamation action against the ABC and investigative journalist Louise Milligan.
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2021: Christian Porter discontinues defamation action against ABC

Christian Porter discontinues defamation action against the ABC and investigative journalist Louise Milligan.

Former prime minister Scott Morrison will be able to challenge any adverse findings made against him on the public purse.

Former ministers can bill taxpayers to challenge robo-debt findings

Senior Liberal figures who gave evidence before the royal commission will be provided funding to challenge any findings handed down against them on Friday.

  • Angus Thompson
Former attorney-general Christian Porter has returned to private legal practice after leaving politics.

Christian Porter to represent Russian oligarch with close Putin ties

Government sources said they would not criticise Porter because he would have been obliged to take up the case under the so-called “cab rank” rule for barristers.

  • Matthew Knott
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Christian Porter marries his Byron bae

The former attorney-general, who quit politics at the last election, quietly tied the knot with his criminal lawyer partner Karen Espiner in Byron Bay recently.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Former Coalition social services minister Christian Porter told the robo-debt royal commission he was frustrated by the lack of information he received over the scheme.

‘Very frustrated’: Porter said he was sceptical about robo-debt talking points

Former Coalition social services minister Christian Porter says he became increasingly frustrated with the lack of clarity from bureaucrats.

  • Angus Thompson
Liberal frontbencher Alan Tudge, his former staff member Rachelle Miller, and former Coalition minister Christian Porter are set to front the robo-debt royal commission this month.

Alan Tudge, Christian Porter and Rachelle Miller to front robo-debt inquiry

Liberal frontbencher Alan Tudge, his former staff member Rachelle Miller and former minister Christian Porter will all appear before the robo-debt royal commission.

  • Angus Thompson
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Porter in the court!

The defence rests, and goes for a rub down.

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