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A man appeared in court today, charged with a minor infraction that is never reported on, but is, in this case, being reported because it involved Salim Mehajer, and we’re hoping for the extra click-throughs.

The new leader won over his colleagues by not having impregnated a staffer, not having New Zealand citizenship, not having accepted a rental property from a prominent donor and not being accused of sexual harassment.

Firth, host of The Firth Factor, weighs in on the big issue of the week: was Malcolm Turnbull right to make sex between MPs and staffers extra naughty?

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce believes that having an affair with a staffer and then getting them a taxpayer-funded job down the corridor is a private matter. Even so, everyone wants to weigh in on the Barnaby Joyce Affair. Here’s what they said.

He admitted there was more steps than just that. “First of all, you have to leave your wife and kids,” he said. “Then just shack up with your new girlfriend. Then you tap someone from the local community who happens to want influence with you.”

Lyle Shelton says he “very much enjoyed” his first weekend away with the party’s tall, tanned founder, sporting a grin for much of the weekend.

Households will be limited to purchasing a maximum of five surface-to-air missiles per year.

“I hate being so sweaty all the time! That’s why I don’t do any exercise,” Reggie complained.

The NBN announced this morning it had finally managed to load the speedtest.net website, which measures internet speeds, and discovered that its speed wasn’t quite as fast as they’d hoped. A spokesperson for the NBN said that they first suspected the NBN was too slow in early 2016, and immediately went to the speedtest.net website. “Now, two years later, we’ve managed to load…

The following is the full statement from Sam Dastyari, following his resignation from parliament this morning: 我在此立即从澳大利亚议会辞职。在过去的两个星期里，我被指责有分裂的忠诚，但没有什么比事实更远的了。我一直把新南威尔士州的筹款活动放在优先位置上，我与中国人的亲密关系仅仅反映了我对“百胜餐饮”和六位数捐赠的热爱。我希望能够通过“天空新闻”的脱口秀节目，或者更可能的是央视，为能够继续为公众生活做出贡献的方法。 Statement translated into English: I hereby resign from the Australian parliament effective immediately. Over the past two weeks, I have been accused of having split loyalties, but nothing can be further from the truth. I have always prioritised the…