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Senator Murray Watt

Senator Murray Watt

Senator for Queensland

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Australian Labor Party

Breach identified

How Richard Marles became an easy mark

Share trade tracker

The missing piece of the integrity puzzle: politicians' private interests

Gambling industry largesse

MP has a record of domestic violence. But we can’t name him.

Deputy PM’s former confidant charged with assault and harassment

Travel and hospitality

Ninth politician caught not disclosing junket

Travel and hospitality

Hollie's undeclared junket to the Holy Land

ShareholdingsGiftsTravel and hospitality

The links between politicians and dirty energy

Gifts| Hospitality| Shareholdings

Money AND gifts: How the gambling industry buys political influence

Shareholdings

Is insider trading going on in Canberra?

Shareholdings

The company MPs keep

Travel and hospitalityGifts

Donor Kebab: Political donors give more than money

Senator Murray Watt

Senator Murray Watt

Senator for Queensland

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Australian Labor Party

Breach identified

Nearly 40% of MPs and their families own 3 or more properties

GiftsTravel and hospitality

The public cost of gifts for MPs

Travel and hospitality

Golf classified: Deputy PM won't budge on naming wealthy golf buddy

Real estateOther income

Please explain, Pauline Hanson: Why didn't you declare your $1.1m property?


Travel and hospitality

Foreign governments and private groups subsidise 132 overseas trips over four years

Shareholdings

Assistant Health Minister invests in Big Tobacco

A system Eddie Obeid would love

Travel and hospitalityGiftsMemberships

Flying high: How politicians travel in style

The Senate's family secrets

Shareholdings

Another minister in breach of the ministerial code of conduct?

GiftsTravel and hospitality

Corruption starts with a half price hamburger

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