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Back to the wall, Brough dramatically switches his story on Slipper diary

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imageIn Question Time, Mal Brough flatly contradicted statements he gave last year about seeking extracts of Peter Slipper's diary. Lukas Coch/AAP

Politically, it is not so hard to see why Malcolm Turnbull, marshalling his barrister skills and a degree of chutzpah, on Wednesday was digging in behind the indefensible position of his special minister of...

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