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Report points to radical welfare overhaul – politics live The long awaited McClure report recommends welfare benefits be streamlined into five payments, Labor refers the Triggs allegations to the police, and the New Zealand prime minister announces more Australia troops are bound for Iraq. All the developments from Canberra, live  Gillian Triggs says role was offered if she quit human rights commission post Offer was made by the secretary of the attorney general’s department, Chris Moraitis, who was acting on behalf of the attorney general, George Brandis, committee hears  Labor asks AFP to investigate whether job offer to Triggs was 'corrupt conduct' Senate committee told human rights chief was asked to resign and offered a different job, potentially an illegal inducement, but PM comes out fighting  Northern Territory government survives no confidence vote despite bitter attacks Opposition says the territory has become a ‘national joke’ while a sacked minister called on chief minister Adam Giles to resign
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Why Germany must swallow this Keynesian free lunch | Andrew Graham For the sake not just of Greece but the whole eurozone, Germany must overcome its historic horror of inflation and embrace fiscal expansion
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Gillian Triggs is up against bullies and pests at hearing, Sarah Hanson-Young says – video Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs should be commended for taking on the federal government's treatment of refugees
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