How ICAC got it wrong on Ransley, embarrassing NSW
This week’s exoneration of businessman Craig Ransley has provided a very important lesson for the NSW government and that state’s media, if they are willing to learn. Five years ago,...
ICAC should be investigated over mine licence evidence
Thanks to the latest disclosure under parliamentary privilege, it is now arguable that one of the most important reports on corruption ever presented to the NSW parliament was so misleading...
NuCoal seizure by NSW casts pall over US tariff talks
The NSW government’s expropriation of US-owned assets worth $131 million threatens to complicate Australia’s efforts to be exempted from threatened tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium. The expropriation by...
ICAC ruling puts a criminal cloud over ministerial discretion
At least one member of the NSW parliament has twigged to the implications of last year’s conviction of former Labor minister Ian Macdonald for misconduct in public office. The Liberal...
Barry O’Farrell victim looks to Trump for NuCoal redress
The welfare of a wheelchair-bound girl in Newcastle might not have been a priority for the NSW government when it expropriated coal exploration licences four years ago. But there is...
Joel Fitzgibbon backs shareholders who lost money in NuCoal case
Federal Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon made a brief but very important intervention in the NuCoal affair this week that highlights the unjust treatment of that company’s shareholders. When the NSW Coalition...
ICAC’s secret government talks
The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption has been authorised by law to engage in undisclosed communications with the state government during the course of its inquiries, according to a draft...
US disputes $131m coal seizure by NSW
Australian officials have been involved in confidential talks with the US aimed at heading off a formal trade dispute over the confiscation by NSW of US-owned assets worth $131 million....
Berejiklian’s government needs to right a great wrong
There is now no doubt that former NSW premier Barry O’Farrell relied upon a flawed ICAC report when his government destroyed private property worth several hundred million dollars. That wrong...
ICAC withheld evidence: Phelps
The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption has been accused in state parliament of withholding exculpatory evidence that undermined the core of its corruption finding against jailed former Labor minister Ian...