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Weekly Political Panel for 25 February 2026 (11 min 44 sec) Finance Minister Nicola Willis has dismissed claims the coalition's pay equity changes amount to an abuse of power as "hyperbole". An ...

Jane Hume will never be accused of understatement, but her return to the Coalition’s frontbench appears to have excited her to new heights of endearingly bonkers hyperbole. Hume, having been elevated ...

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