POLITICIANS SPIN FILE #3
Baird backs extension to ICAC’s powers The recent vote in Parliament to extend ICAC’s powers to allow ICAC to initiate criminal charges continues the systematic erosion of governance standards in...
Nippon Gas: NSW mine grab a breach of treaty
by: CHRIS MERRITT, The Australian, November 20, 2015. A Japanese company that was stripped of assets worth millions of dollars based on a recommendation from the NSW anti-corruption agency has...
ICAC ‘omitted’ statement from evidence to DPP on Murray Kear
by: Sharri Markson, Media Editor, The Australian, November 14, 2015. The NSW corruption watchdog handed over evidence to the Director of Public Prosecutions that allegedly omitted statements made in favour...
Time to remove stench of ICAC ‘corruption’ claims: John Kinghorn
by: Chris Merritt, Legal Affairs Editor, The Australian, November 13, 2015. Businessman John Kinghorn has just joined an elite club: the innocent victims of the NSW government’s Independent Commission Against...
Mike Baird’s bad politics over ICAC changes will get worse
by: Chris Merritt, Legal Affairs Editor, The Australian, November 13, 2015. For better or worse, Mike Baird has linked his fate to an organisation whose competence and rigour are seriously...
ICAC’s legal liabilities in corruption cases will hurt taxpayers
by: CHRIS MERRITT, Legal Affairs, The Australian, November 13, 2015. John Kinghorn is the latest victim of the NSW anti-corruption agency to be exonerated by the courts. But it was not...
Mike Baird, not Turnbull, should clean up Barry O’Farrell’s mess
by: Chris Merritt, Legal Affairs Editor, The Australian, November 13, 2015. Sooner of later, Malcolm Turnbull will inherit the mess that was left unresolved when Barry O’Farrell became the second...
Why give ICAC more power? (when they misuse what they already have)
http://at.dailytelegraph.com.au/link/426ad9094d3b1c0dc9fdb9bd7c6b734b?domain=dailytelegraph.com.au Another good article by Miranda Devine on 11/11/15.
Political stitch up from the start………
One day the truth will come out as to why the O'Farrell Government specifically went against the recommendation in the Clayton Utz report and sent the investigation of EL 7270 to...
Ray Hadley discusses ICAC issues with Chris Merritt
Ray interviews Chris Merritt, Legal Affairs Editor from the Australian. Topics covered include the ICAC Inspectors recent report and Andrew Poole's right to have his name cleared. [audio m4a="https://www.watchingthewatchdog.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Hadley-And-Merritt-6_11_15.m4a"][/audio] Courtesy of...