The head of the Australian Border Force says there was no way for his team to know that a woman allowed to leave Australia was a key ICAC witness.
Australian Border Force was never notified the migration agent,who flew to Dubai on August 19,had been summonsed to appear before ICAC the following month.
The NSW government will review how grants are handed out amid ongoing controversy over how public money is spent.
Today on Please Explain,state political editor Alexandra Smith joins Nathanael Cooper to look at what unfolded at the ICAC.
Is it sufficient for a minister to say,“I don’t think there’s a conflict here,so I won’t inform the premier”?
It may be some time before the Independent Commission Against Corruption releases findings about Gladys Berejiklian and Daryl Maguire.
Local MPs need to advocate for their communities,but governments need to ensure taxpayer dollars are distributed fairly and transparently across the state.
The ICAC has exposed,for our scrutiny,the political culture of our country:so degraded and partisan that politicians see nothing wrong in using our money to buy votes for their party.
Premier Dominic Perrottet says he is opposed to pork-barrelling in must-win seats,as his predecessor Gladys Berejiklian returns to ICAC on Monday.
A poll taken after Gladys Berejiklian’s departure shows more than 70 per cent of voters support a federal anti-corruption watchdog.
The ICAC’s public inquiry will start at 10am. The former premier will be grilled about multimillion-dollar grants or promises made to organisations in Mr Maguire’s electorate. She denies wrongdoing.