Lunch with
‘Oh, yeah I think everyone’s always interested in the hot pants’
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- Elizabeth Flux
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- Jessica McSweeney
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- Samantha Selinger-Morris
This tough corporate cop has seen it all, but even she is astounded by the scale of business misconduct
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- Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Australia’s new special envoy to combat Islamophobia didn’t want the job but is now working to make it more than tokenistic.
- Patrick Begley
This cop found himself at the centre of the Lawyer X scandal. Now he’s running the next election
Jeff Pope might have fronted the media plenty of times for Victoria Police but he’s never really talked about himself – or his run ins with Nicola Gobbo. Until now.
- Sherryn Groch
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