Keep your friends close, but your frenemies closer.
Andrew Meares, Alex Ellinghausen and I will be back tomorrow.
Until then!
(P.S In an update that could not wait until the morning, Bill Heffernan just gave Stephen Conroy a mini-massage in the Defence estimates hearing. How relaxing is that?!)
5.36pm on Jun 2, 2014
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In estimates this evening, Health, the Industry Department, Safe Work Australia and Defence Materiel Organisation are on the menu.
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull during question time. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
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5.34pm on Jun 2, 2014
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What do you reckon Malcolm?
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull during QT. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
5.33pm on Jun 2, 2014
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Andrew Bolt has hit TVs this evening, telling Channel 10 that Turnbull's "over the top response shows he just wants to keep the story going".
(Bolt's comments in turn thus ensuring the story keeps going.)
5.08pm on Jun 2, 2014
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And now, the results of today's poll.
Which is the greater sin?
We have a clear winner: "mentioning the carbon tax in a statement about D-Day" with 64 per cent of the vote.
Next is "suggesting dole recipients should get drug tested" (26 per cent), followed by "having dinner with Clive Palmer" (6 per cent) and "associating Andrew Bolt with the term 'demented'" (3 per cent).
FYI, Stephen Conroy, "having a press conference in an air base hangar" only scored a lowly one per cent of the vote.
Thanks to the 1,327 people who voted.
That's almost a Nielsen poll sample!
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5.02pm on Jun 2, 2014
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Here's an opportunity if you have a spare $1,200 floating around.
(Because Batam is where SBY will be on Wednesday.)
"Further to their very cordial conversation last month, the Prime Minister will spend time with President Yudhoyono and continue the progress that has been made to resolve current issues and to strengthen the bilateral relationship," a spokesman for the PM says.
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4.37pm on Jun 2, 2014
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The Abbott-SBY meeting is a good sign of "normality" happening in Australia-Indonesia relations.
We suppose that there are fingers crossed in government circles that there are no boat turnback operations between now and then.