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25 August 2018

9:00 AM

25 August 2018

9:00 AM

In for a penny, in for half a billion bucks

Okay, here’s an observation that ought to disturb you. Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott got more negative press coverage for bestowing a knighthood on Prince Phillip and for eating a raw onion than current Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has so far received for giving nearly half a billion dollars of taxpayer money to an obscure organisation known as the ‘Great Barrier Reef Foundation’.

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