A NSW Labor staffer has stepped aside from a leading Chinese-Australian organisation,after it emerged he completed a propaganda training course in China.
The exiled billionaire had"a motive"to dissipate his Australian assets after he was hit with a $140 million tax bill,the Federal Court said.
The NSW Labor Party has forfeited a $100,000 donation as a corruption inquiry heard"a lot of alternative facts and nonsense"had been put forward about its source.
Cash donations above $100 to political parties will be banned in NSW,under planned new legislation that will make it the first state to introduce such a cap.
The Federal Court has frozen the Australian assets of exiled billionaire Huang Xiangmo,a central figure in the ICAC's investigation into Labor Party donations.
Gladys Liu has dug herself into a hole with foolish answers in a Sky News interview,but this is not a situation like the Labor scandal over Sam Dastyari.
Lawyer Ian Robertson has told the Independent Commission Against Corruption he did not tell former NSW Labor Party boss Kaila Murnain to keep quiet about a suspected illegal donation.
Huang Xiangmo has broken his silence,declaring that he has"nothing to do with the alleged $100,000 donation."
Suspended NSW Labor boss Kaila Murnain denied throwing the party's lawyer"under a bus"in a corruption inquiry into illegal donations.
Former Labor MP Ernest Wong was cross examined by the barrister representing suspended NSW Labor boss Kaila Murnain on Tuesday at the ICAC.
Stephen Jones said the explosive revelations exposed at a corruption inquiry are the result of a"long legacy of doing whatever it takes".