NO LAUGHING MATTER? Environment Minister David Speirs (right) holds property under joint ownership with his partner - an arrangement the Treasurer insists will be affected by changes to land tax aggregation. Photo: David Mariuz / AAP

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Lucas's marital blitz spears cabinet colleague

Spouses and partners who jointly hold investment properties could face higher land tax bills under the Marshall Government’s controversial aggregation reforms – and one of its own ministers could be burned by the changes.

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Speirs faces no confidence call

Environment Minister David Speirs will today face the first “no confidence” motion of the current parliamentary term, as Labor lashes the embattled frontbencher for the third day running.

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Speirs' own letters undermine his Murray-Darling claims

The Marshall Government’s claims that embattled Environment Minister David Speirs was denied “procedural fairness” are undermined by letters he sent both the Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission and a separate Productivity Commission inquiry, opposing any new strategy for recovering 450 gigalitres of environmental flows under the basin plan.

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'Royal Commissioner is not God': Speirs' rearguard action as Labor targets seat

Labor has today ramped up its pursuit of embattled Environment Minister David Speirs, bombarding his southern suburbs electorate with propaganda criticising his performance on water security as state parliament opened amid a cacophony of controversy that saw five Opposition frontbenchers evicted in the first hour.

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Speirs at odds with CE over Environment Department restructure

Environment Minister David Speirs has backed away from his chief executive’s decree that the state department is fundamentally “an economic development agency”, conceding “the environment should come first and foremost”.