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A ONE-ON-ONE dinner with a minister of the crown: $10,000, notes contributing editor Peter Van Onselen.
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Both Liberal and Labor should wise up
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Shorten pathway to a Gillard future
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Bligh did not heed lesson from west
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Damaged deputy
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