Latest Mark Latham smear targets one of Australia's most popular politicians - even as HE faces the most vile of allegations: PVO
Just when it seemed Albo's government had run out of new ways to insult voters' intelligence, it found another: allowing senior public servants to keep flying business class on short flights, despite clear advice in favour of ending the costly perk.
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