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Morning Mail: The public servants paid more than PM; Kean’s climate broadside; and Heeney’s comeback wish

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Pay day | Nearly a dozen federal public servants were paid more than $1m last year, with one receiving a $1.5m package worth more than double Anthony Albanese’s base salary.

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Climate chief Matt Kean has attacked the approval of a large new coal project in New South Wales, Isaac Heeney says he “can’t wait” to play for the Swans again despite ongoing police investigations, Australian scientists make a breakthrough about a common infection affecting millions of women.

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