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Canberra: the week in review 21 September 2018

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Between school funding, European au pairs and strawberries, it has been anything but a quiet week in federal politics.


A long-running stoush over funding for Catholic and independent schools came to an end, with the Morrison Government announcing a multi-billion-dollar deal.

And the Home Affairs Minister escaped a no-confidence vote -- by the narrowest of margins.

But the nation's strawberry industry remains in crisis.

 


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