2016 – Page 2 – Watching The Watchdog

In The Press

ICAC Inspector Levine- Call to ditch NSW ICAC ‘theatre’ hearings

Justice for All23 May 2016

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption would be forced to correct its mistakes and abandon the “flamboyance and theatre” of public hearings under proposals being considered by the state government....

CORRUPTION WATCHDOG ‘WORSE THAN THE SPANISH INQUISITION’

Justice for All22 April 2016

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption suffered another setback yesterday when a newspaper editor it wanted charged with a criminal offence was exonerated by a Sydney court. John Booth, who...

In The Press

‘Don’t act like a banana republic’: US business warns Australia

Justice for All16 April 2016

A leading US business lobby group has warned the federal government that Australia risks being wrongly perceived as “a banana republic” because of an ICAC-driven expropriation of American assets. This...

ICAC

ICAC accusations leave a trail of destruction

Justice for All11 April 2016

Murray Kear is the latest to join me as a member of the ICAC survivor’s club: found innocent in court but not exonerated by this anti-corruption agency. Kear, a former...

In The Press

US anger over ICAC asset grab

Justice for All3 April 2016

The head of the main US business lobby group in Australia has warned that Australia has not yet felt the full repercussion of an ICAC-initiated expropriation of American assets. That...

In The Press

NuCoal to cloud US trade talks after ICAC, Barry O’Farrell move

Justice for All3 April 2016

Claims by American investors for more than $90 million in compensation for the ICAC-driven expropriation of US assets will dominate free-trade talks in May. US investors are furious their equity...

In The Press

Arrogant ICAC continues to blunder along.

Justice for All21 March 2016

ICAC Commissioner Megan Latham has made the extraordinary admission that the NSW corruption watchdog has not learned any great lessons from its flawed, discredited and unlawful investigation into one of...

Before the Courts

Another example of NSW having double standards! How is this justice Mike Baird?

Justice for All10 March 2016

SPIN FILE #5 Earlier this week John Maitland, who was the Chairman of Doyles Creek Mining Pty Ltd for a period before the company was purchased at arm’s length by...

Coal Mining Politics

Sovereign risk increased in NSW- as expected!

Justice for All7 March 2016

The latest results from the well regarded Fraser Institute survey should have NSW MP's worried. It shows that stealing people's property has consequences! The Fraser Institute of mining companies is...

Before the Courts

Who’s responsible to ensure ICAC follow rules? It seems no-one!

Justice for All7 March 2016

Sydney silk Geoffrey Watson SC has denied exercising any power when he was counsel assisting for the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. Mr Watson has told the NSW Supreme Court...