The head table of a 2015 Labor fundraising dinner,where then-state and federal leaders Bill Shorten and Luke Foley,was sold for $100,000,a corruption inquiry has heard.
NSW Labor Party boss Kaila Murnain will give evidence today with the knowledge that many of her colleagues are already calling time on her reign.
A key witness to a corruption inquiry into NSW Labor has alleged his Chinese developer bosses,including Leo Liao,made donations to the party on his behalf without his knowledge.
A Chinese billionaire delivered $100,000 cash in an Aldi plastic bag to former party boss Jamie Clements at NSW Labor headquarters,an ICAC inquiry has heard.
In hindsight,the apparatchiks at the Chinese consulate in Sydney could have done better with their timing.
A corruption inquiry into NSW Labor has opened with sensational claims that one key witness died by suicide rather than give evidence.
The man whose relationship with Sam Dastyari ended the NSW senator's career was also an $800 million-dollar-a-year Crown gambler.
Ernest Wong's clients will want better results than Huang,who was effectively banned from Australia earlier this year.
"Frankly it strikes me as a story in search of a scandal,"the former prime minister said.
Senior government figures say the former prime minister's spray had to be seen in the context of his hatred of Peter Dutton.
Communist Party-linked billionaire Huang Xiangmo obtained a meeting with Pyne,a senior minister,after paying tens of thousands to lobbyist Santo Santoro