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Your noon Briefing: Premier may stand Trad aside

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Hello readers. Queensland’s Premier won’t rule out standing Jackie Trad aside over a property investment probe, and The Mocker goes into orbit with the lunar left.

Ex Cairns to the COURIER MAIL 17.06.2015Ravenshoe Blast - Jacquie Trad  -  PICS BRIAN CASSEY - story Peter Michael A thoughtful Deputy Premier Jacqui Trad in the main street of Ravenshoe after visiting the scene of the "Serves You Right Cafe' explosion.
Ex Cairns to the COURIER MAIL 17.06.2015Ravenshoe Blast - Jacquie Trad - PICS BRIAN CASSEY - story Peter Michael A thoughtful Deputy Premier Jacqui Trad in the main street of Ravenshoe after visiting the scene of the "Serves You Right Cafe' explosion.

Property scandal

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk won’t rule out standing Jackie Trad aside if corruption watchdog launches a probe into her investment property.

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Treasury Secretary Philip Gaetjens  in the 2019 Budget Lock Up in Parliament House. Picture Kym Smith
Treasury Secretary Philip Gaetjens in the 2019 Budget Lock Up in Parliament House. Picture Kym Smith

New boss

Treasury Secretary Philip Gaetjens will succeed Martin Parkinson as Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the PM announces. Keep up with the latest from parliament in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Bryer Schmegelsky, right, in military fatigues, is one of the suspects in the murder of Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese. Picture: Supplied
Bryer Schmegelsky, right, in military fatigues, is one of the suspects in the murder of Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese. Picture: Supplied

‘Suicide mission’

One of the suspects in the Lucas Fowler case “wants the pain to end”, according to his father, as images of his Nazi fascination emerge.

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The MP and the destroyed door.
The MP and the destroyed door.

Hotel tantrum

Victorian Labor MP Will Fowles is detained by ACT police after allegedly destroying hotel property.

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This photo obtained from NASA, shows the official crew portrait of the Apollo 11 astronauts taken at the Kennedy Space center on March 30, 1969. Pictured from left to right are: Neil A. Armstrong, Commander; Michael Collins, Module Pilot; Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot. - When the Saturn V rocket built by Wernher von Braun launched with the Apollo 11 capsule at its summit on July 16 1969, one million people flocked to watch the spectacle on the beaches of Florida near Cape Canaveral. But many had doubts that they'd succeed in landing this time. (Photo by HO / NASA / AFP) / **RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS **TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Ivan Couronne, "To the Moon and back: mankind's giant leap 50 years on"
This photo obtained from NASA, shows the official crew portrait of the Apollo 11 astronauts taken at the Kennedy Space center on March 30, 1969. Pictured from left to right are: Neil A. Armstrong, Commander; Michael Collins, Module Pilot; Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot. - When the Saturn V rocket built by Wernher von Braun launched with the Apollo 11 capsule at its summit on July 16 1969, one million people flocked to watch the spectacle on the beaches of Florida near Cape Canaveral. But many had doubts that they'd succeed in landing this time. (Photo by HO / NASA / AFP) / **RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS **TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Ivan Couronne, "To the Moon and back: mankind's giant leap 50 years on"

Don’t miss The Mocker: Lunar Left, you are go for launch

The Apollo 11 mission 50 years ago was the product of a “white, male culture’’ say the misandrists of today. Seriously. If left to the social justice zealots, the rockets would never have got off the ground.

Jason Gagliardi

Jason Gagliardi is the engagement editor and a columnist at The Australian, who got his start at The Courier-Mail in Brisbane. He was based for 25 years in Hong Kong and Bangkok. His work has been featured in publications including Time, the Sunday Telegraph Magazine (UK), Colors, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Harpers Bazaar and Roads & Kingdoms, and his travel writing won Best Asean Travel Article twice at the ASEANTA Awards.

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