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Bronwyn Bishop's love affair with charter flights began nearly two decades ago when she was a junior minister in the Howard government, with the now Speaker amassing a near $140,000 bill over four years. The $139,196.01 outlay is close to seven times the amount spent by two other then-junior.... |
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By Idowu Sowunmi. THERE is no gainsaying the fact that some media proprietors in Nigeria are now wearing an unenviable toga of ‘debtor media houses’ thereby competing with some state governments over their abysmal failure to pay their staffers’ salaries as at when due. |
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Malawi ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) director of woman Patricia Kaliati and marverick DPP orator George Saonda on Sunday took another attack on opposition leader Lazarous Chakwera who left his role as president of the Assemblies of God church to lead Malawi Congress Party (MCP). |
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Mrs Bishop and Prime Minister Tony Abbott will today continue to make clear they intend to reject criticisms of the Speaker’s spending patterns — including reports of two more chopper jaunts, and a whopping $800,000 expenses bill — and will hope they fade before Parliament’s return in three weeks. |
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"I can really understand why people are unhappy about this," Mr Abbott said. "Frankly, I'm unhappy about it as well."
"She has been a strong Speaker...she has been a strong servant of our country, she has been a good servant of the Coalition and so she does have my confidence but like everyone who.... |
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First published in Good Weekend on August 16, 1997 Bob Ellis, writer, documentary maker and occasional political candidate, was born in 1942 in northern NSW. His latest book is Goodbye Jerusalem - Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider . Anne Brooksbank, born in 1943 in Melbourne, is a novelist and.... |
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Mrs Bishop and Prime Minister Tony Abbott will today continue to make clear they intend to reject criticisms of the Speaker’s spending patterns — including reports of two more chopper jaunts, and a whopping $800,000 expenses bill — and will hope they fade before Parliament’s return in three weeks. |
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"I can really understand why people are unhappy about this," Mr Abbott said. "Frankly, I'm unhappy about it as well." "She has been a strong Speaker...she has been a strong servant of our country, she has been a good servant of the Coalition and so she does have my confidence but like everyone who.... |
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First published in Good Weekend on August 16, 1997 Bob Ellis, writer, documentary maker and occasional political candidate, was born in 1942 in northern NSW. His latest book is Goodbye Jerusalem - Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider . Anne Brooksbank, born in 1943 in Melbourne, is a novelist and.... |
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Tony Abbott says embattled Speaker Bronwyn Bishop is on probation after copping a "justifiable hiding" over her travel expenses. "She will learn a very salutary lesson, a very, very salutary lesson," he told reporters in Sydney amid renewed Labor calls for her head. Mr Abbott confirmed the Speaker still enjoyed his confidence. |
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An article in the current issue of “Sovershenno Sekretno” asks whether there is a line between Russian Orthodox Church activists and those who engage in pogrom-like violence. It concludes sadly that there is not — and that church activists and those engaged in attacks on other groups are increasingly one and the same people. |
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