The investigative reporter pulls back the curtain on crime,the media and policing in her compelling first novel,Pheasants Nest.
Journalists will not be prosecuted for breaching certain secrecy laws without the intervention of the Attorney-General,as part of a legal overhaul that will see criminal liability stripped from almost a fifth of Commonwealth of secrecy offences.
Gerard Benedet,who ran conservative activist group Advance,will step up as the all-powerful Pharmacy Guild’s chief executive.
Christian Porter discontinues defamation action against the ABC and investigative journalist Louise Milligan.
Senior Liberal figures who gave evidence before the royal commission will be provided funding to challenge any findings handed down against them on Friday.
Government sources said they would not criticise Porter because he would have been obliged to take up the case under the so-called “cab rank” rule for barristers.
The former attorney-general,who quit politics at the last election,quietly tied the knot with his criminal lawyer partner Karen Espiner in Byron Bay recently.
Former Coalition social services minister Christian Porter says he became increasingly frustrated with the lack of clarity from bureaucrats.
Liberal frontbencher Alan Tudge,his former staff member Rachelle Miller and former minister Christian Porter will all appear before the robo-debt royal commission.
The defence rests,and goes for a rub down.
Jayne Jagot is so protective of her privacy,a fellow judge joked about her being in witness protection.