The premier implored the opposition to back new laws to clean up government grants in NSW after it oversaw scandals in bushfire and local council funding that favoured Coalition seats.
Briefings to the industry and trade minister have failed to justify the value of the roles,galvanising Labor’s decision to axe the posts.
The embattled neurosurgeon says he was driving Ubers to get by. But he still had a spare $10,000 for the underworld identity’s charity.
Steve Hutensky helped Harvey Weinstein secure non-disclosure agreements with women he’d allegedly sexually harassed. Now he’s one of Australia’s biggest film producers.
Jennifer West alleges she was removed from the $500,000-a-year post to avoid embarrassment to government ministers John Barilaro and Stuart Ayres.
A seven-month investigation by ICAC into John Barilaro’s US trade role appointment has been closed following compulsory secret interviews and examination of documents.
Less than four weeks before the March 25 election,Labor is on track to win a majority government,although many voters are undecided about which party to support.
The former deputy premier personally solicited Stephen Cartwright for the lucrative role that resulted in a poor “financial outcome for the state of NSW”.
Federal emergency management minister Murray Watt says the prioritisation of bushfire grants to Coalition seats in NSW was a decision of state cabinet.
The former Liberal minister who lost his cabinet position amid the John Barilaro scandal is a key target of the report,which described the process as a ‘jobs for the boys’ appointment.
The upper house probe also made a scathing assessment of former trade minister Stuart Ayres,accusing him of misleading the public and questioning whether he misled parliament.