AUGUST 3,2018: Maguire officially resigns from Parliament at the behest of Berejiklian and other frontbenchers,with Berejiklian saying she is “pleased” and “relieved” but privately she remains in contact with Maguire.
MARCH 23,2019: Coalition retains government in the state election.
SEPTEMBER 13,2020: Berejiklian cuts off all contact with Maguire and agrees to support an ICAC inquiry into his business interests.
OCTOBER 12,2020: Berejiklian’s relationship with Maguire is revealed at the ICAC. Berejiklian says she kept the relationship private because she is “a very private person” and “didn’t feel the relationship had sufficient substance to be made public”. She agrees the relationship continued until at least July 13,2018,and says contact continued until September 13,2020.
OCTOBER 13,2020: Berejiklian survives no-confidence motions across both houses in NSW Parliament.
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OCTOBER 14,2020: An internal investigation is launched into how confidential transcripts containing sensitive details of the relationship between Berejiklian and Maguire were accidentally published online by the state’s corruption watchdog.
OCTOBER 16,2020: Maguire tells the ICAC he regularly refrained from telling Berejiklian “too much detail” when they were in the relationship and agreed with her in a 2017 phone call when she said,“I don’t need to know that bit.”
OCTOBER 21,2020:Senior advisers from the Premier’s office are called before a parliamentary inquiry to explain why the NSW Premier handed out $250 million in council grants without signed paperwork.
OCTOBER 23,2020: Parliamentary inquiry hears Berejiklian gave Maguire’s Wagga Wagga electorate six grants totalling $40,000 from her discretionary fund. A spokesperson for Ms Berejiklian says there was no conflict of interest and the grants to Wagga organisations made up 1.8 per cent of the 217 grants issued statewide from the discretionary fund that financial year.
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NOVEMBER 12,2020: The NSW upper house votes to refer Berejiklian to the corruption watchdog for failing to report her relationship with Maguire.
DECEMBER 3,2020: It is reported that Berejiklian oversaw a fund that set aside $5.5 million for a project championed by Maguire and that he allegedly later tried to profit from.
DECEMBER 28,2020: Maguire referred to the ICAC by One Nation leader Mark Latham for not getting approval to travel from Berejiklian while he was in a secret relationship with her.
MARCH 2,2021: The ICAC releases a statement confirming Operation Keppel,which is investigating Maguire,is ongoing.
MARCH 4,2021: The Premier denies any wrongdoing over a meeting she held with her then lover Maguire about a highway that was more than 100 kilometres from his electorate but ran alongside an investment property he had just purchased.
MARCH 22,2021:The ICAC recommends NSW Director of Public Prosecutions consider possible charges against Maguire relating to giving false or misleading evidence to the watchdog in an earlier inquiry into the conduct of councillors and staff at a council in Sydney’s west between 2014 and 2016.
JUNE 19,2021: Berejiklian is dating high-profile barrister Arthur Moses,SC,the lawyer who represented her at the corruption hearing into Maguire.
OCTOBER 1,2021: The ICAC announces the Maguire inquiry will be extended to examine Berejiklian’s relationship with the former MP,triggering the resignation of Berejiklian as Premier and an MP. She denies wrongdoing and says history will record she acted in the best interests of the people of NSW.
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