http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/national/national/general/mirab...

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"As the Liberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella stood at the funeral of her old friend Colin Howard, QC, at Melbourne Cemetery on September 11, she gave a brief speech about his legal career.


A general counsel to the federal Attorney-General, dean of law at Melbourne University, monarchist, author of legal textbooks: it was a long and distinguished professional life.


What Mirabella did not mention, it is now alleged, and what she had never admitted even to her family, was that Howard, 40 years her senior, was also her live-in lover for five years in the late 1990s. Nor that she had received gifts from him valued at well over $100,000 to help her election to Federal Parliament in 2001. Nor, allegedly, another substantial sum to buy her Wangaratta farmhouse in 2007."