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"Pay me less", was the request retiring Labor MP Bill Shorten made to the University of Canberra in negotiating his vice-chancellor remuneration package that kicks in early next year. Sarah Lansdown reveals Shorten has asked for his salary to be well below the more than $1 million his predecessor took home. It was a very big news day on Friday, with city-wide bus chaos and a complexity thinker winning a big payday just part of the fun. A parents group has come out in defence of school students who were blamed for yesterday's hugely disruptive bus strike. Lanie Tindale reports on a rebuke of the bus drivers' union, which blamed schoolkids for the violence that sparked their strike. And Jasper Lindell asks whether the scale of that problem justified the nuclear response we saw on Friday. Patrick Hollingworth used his court victory over the CIT to claim vindication for his highly controversial consultancy business, Hannah Neale and Lucy Bladen report. The institute has been ordered to pay Hollingworth's company $2.4 million after a controversial contract that later sparked a corruption inquiry was terminated. A minority Labor government, a proper crossbench, and a former junior governing party with a point to prove. As the dust settles after the election, Lucy Bladen writes we should buckle up because it's going to be a wild four years in the ACT Legislative Assembly.
And in opinion, Megan Doherty has a very (for Canberra at least) contrarian take on Donald Trump's victory in the US election. It's starting to feel like summer. Today we'll see a top of 30 degrees, a partly cloudy day with a slight chance of a shower.
Enjoy your weekend. John-Paul Moloney, managing editor | 