Reubenstein, a former SBS journalist, may have intended only to make that argument but his articles were a broadside on Wade, including suggested his Twitter use was partisan and questioning whether it breached a public service code of conduct. It seemed to have an immediate effect: Wadeâs boss told Senate estimates she had asked him to take a tweeting âpauseâ while the department looked into âsome ancillary mattersâ.
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Senator Paterson and Labor senator Kimberley Kitching, the co-chairs of a global coalition of MPs critical of the CCP known as the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, registered their concerns about the initial article in the Senate in March.
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The nation’s banks are struggling to process an unprecedented number of new mortgages as over-excited buyers snap up high-priced homes at Saturday auctions before they have locked in the funding to close the deal.
ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott revealed his bank had wound back home loan marketing because demand was so strong while mortgage brokers said they were flat out with some customers, successful at an auction, facing a Monday-morning dash to secure a loan.
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Coal mining companies in the Hunter Valley have failed to set aside enough money to fill in their massive voids or maintain the vegetation required to restore the landscape once their mines come to the end of their lives.
Japanese trading giant Idemitsu has fallen well short in its efforts to replant pasture and woodlands on its Muswellbrook Coal mine in the Upper Hunter, with insufficient topsoil and a poor choice of species being replanted, a report obtained by the
Herald shows.
BHPâs Mt Arthur coal mine near Muswellbrook has one of the largest voids in the Hunter Valley.
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When Peter Dutton visited his first military base as Defence Minister last month, he had a remarkable message for senior military officers: leave the room.
He was at Lavarack Barracks in the garrison city of Townsville and he was on a mission. The objective was two-fold: begin lifting morale following the Brereton war crimes inquiry and find out what troops on the ground want from the government.
Peter Dutton met soldiers in Townsville last month.
Credit:ADF âHe comes to Townsville, we meet with a bunch of soldiers and senior officers. The first thing Peter did was to tell the cameraman to get lost. And then he said to all the senior officers: âYou can leave as wellâ,â says Phil Thompson, the member for Herbert in north Queensland and a former soldier.
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When Peter Dutton visited his first military base as Defence Minister last month, he had a remarkable message for senior military officers: leave the room.
He was at Lavarack Barracks in the garrison city of Townsville and he was on a mission. The objective was two-fold: begin lifting morale following the Brereton war crimes inquiry and find out what troops on the ground want from the government.
Peter Dutton met soldiers in Townsville last month.
Credit:ADF âHe comes to Townsville, we meet with a bunch of soldiers and senior officers. The first thing Peter did was to tell the cameraman to get lost. And then he said to all the senior officers: âYou can leave as wellâ,â says Phil Thompson, the member for Herbert in north Queensland and a former soldier.