Police consider paranoid plot, Higgins reaches confidential settlement, New Zealand phases out smoking

Police are investigating the apparent online promotion of paranoid conspiracy theories by one of the trio involved in a fatal ambush at a remote Queensland property, Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins has reached a confidential settlement with the Commonwealth after her claims of sexual assault at Parliament House and Former Coalition minister Marise Payne has told the robo-debt royal commission she doesn't know when the need for policy and law changes for the scheme “dropped off the radar”.

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