by DAVID FLINT – NSW’s Independent Commission Against Corruption is an unnecessary disaster robbing Australians of their ancient right to jury trial. To err is human, but to persist in error – actively undermining the constitutional order – is the hallmark of…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – FORMER NSW Liberal premier Gladys Berejiklian has lost her court bid to overturn findings she acted corruptly amid her romance with Party colleague Daryl Maguire in her time as premier. This week, Chief Justice Andrew Bell maintained findings…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT ISN’T every day that a church sermon has you sitting up (metaphorically) taking notes. Sadly, many priests these days see opportunities for “innovation” not in the preparation of their homilies but rather in butchering the rest of…
by DAVID FLINT – THE NSW Liberal politicians who criticise ICAC’s leisurely finding that former premier Gladys Berejiklian engaged in serious corrupt conduct will no doubt agree, at least in private, on one matter. This is that, in all its exquisite detail,…
by PAUL COLLITS – FOLLOWING the deserved public humiliation of Gladys Berejiklian, all sorts of people whose judgement is normally sound have come out swinging against the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. I would have thought we were in Blind Freddie territory…
by CINDY LI – DARYL Maguire, who allegedly committed visa fraud while serving as a NSW MP, has been charged with making false and misleading evidence to a corruption inquiry involving a council in Sydney. On June 2, Mr Maguire, a former…
by PAUL COLLITS – FORMER NSW Gladys Berejiklian has been found to have been seriously corrupt by an Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry. And, true to form, the clueless NSW Liberal Party has circled the wagons in praise of her leadership –…
by DAVID FLINT – ACTING against corruption should obviously be just and efficient. This basic consideration should not be abandoned in parliament’s unseemly rush to ram through the National Anti-Corruption Commission bills before their long summer break. Taxpayers should not be left…
by PAUL COLLITS – IF THE appalling behaviour of Australian governments during the COVID non-pandemic taught us anything, it is that executive overreach is the number one political problem in this country. An issue, alas, simply not addressed during the recent election…
THE now daily revelations at NSW ICAC are providing satisfying sport for those who wish to see Gladys’s downfall made permanent, or, perhaps, simply wish to see alleged petty corruption exposed. It must make painful viewing and reading for those who see…
