PoliticsNow: Annastacia Palaszczuk confirms $450m coal payout figure
While the PM downplayed the size of the payout, Premier reveals ballpark figure for Gladstone Power Station was devised before the energy plan passed federal parliament.
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‘I’m challenging you’: Brad Battin’s Boxing Day phone call to Pesutto
In a major development, the shadow police minister has told the Opposition leader he will challenge him for the leadership at Friday’s high-stakes meeting of Victorian Liberal MPs.
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Prodigious Boxing Day aid cemented key partnership
John Howard knew he had to act quickly to help Indonesia after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami unleashed destruction and terror on Australia’s most important neighbour.
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