The year 2000 is best viewed as the cheerful end to a successful 1990s for the city,not the dawn of a new age.
It can be revealed Morris Iemma fronted a consortium interested in buying into the embattled club — only to be snubbed at the 11th hour.
Could there have been a worse time for Wilson Asset Management's former stockpicker Chris Stott to go into business for himself?
Morris Iemma,who was NSW premier from August 2005 until September 2008,is the first of 53 prosecution witnesses to give evidence at the criminal trial of his two former parliamentary colleagues.
Former Labor ministers Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald are accused of conspiring over the granting of a coal exploration licence near Mudgee.
Former Labor boss John Della Bosca warns that previous reviews in the troubled NSW branch have been ignored.
Milton Orkopoulos will appear before the State Parole Authority,which has flagged its intention to release him from jail with just under two years left on his sentence.
Morris Iemma and Chris Patterson have formed an unlikely alliance to become lobbyists at large.
The disgraced former Labor minister has spent 10 years behind bars for sex offences against teenage boys and supplying them with drugs.
The corruption commission is hearing evidence into dealings at the former Canterbury Council.
Former NSW Premier Morris Iemma believes Australia's cricketers are to blame for declining standards of on-field behaviour across the country,which is why he has put his hand up to help.