Fitzy & Wippa are over - but one already has a new gig: Plus, awkward moment between Sky News and the Guardian at 'journo Oscars' - and the ABC tries to bury story about 'missing' reporter: INSIDE MAIL
The ABC got shirty with us this week when we enquired about the whereabouts of Claudia Long - the young reporter who in May wrongly accused two Nationals MPs of abandoning their electorates during the floods.
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Daily Mail
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Tragic development after a body of a newborn baby was found in a stormwater drain in Alexander Heights, Perth
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