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Repercussions from a brief hearing yesterday in the NSW Supreme Court are set to affect every politician and public official. The circumstances in which they risk criminal prosecution over decisions that bestow benefits are now more certain. This will act as a long-overdue guide for anti-corruption commissions whose work, until ...

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Ministers in every government — state and federal — are the biggest winners from yesterday’s courtroom victory in NSW by Ian Macdonald and John Maitland. They now have the benefit of bright-line guidance on exactly what sort of decisions will amount to the criminal offence of misconduct in public office. The ...

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So far, the collateral damage ­inflicted on the innocent has been given insufficient attention by those who are clamouring for a federal equivalent of the NSW ­Independent Commission Against Corruption. That needs to change. The NSW experience should be closely examined to ensure the commonwealth does not follow this state’s ...

With a little effort, benefits can be discerned from even the most ­lunatic of ideas. And so it is with the present push to create a federal ICAC. A bill to create just such an ­organisation is likely to emerge next week from crossbenchers in federal parliament. Even if it ...

THE SENATE PROOF ADJOURNMENT Mining Industry SPEECH Tuesday, 13 November 2018  Senator PATRICK (South Australia) (21:03): Tonight I rise to raise a number of concerns about South Australian constituents who, as investors, have been financially affected by the passing of the Mining Amendments (ICAC Operations Jasper and Acacia) Bill 2014 in the ...

The following interesting information was contained within NuCoal’s most recent quarterly information. The investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) relied on a so called ‘fact’ that Exploration Licence 7270 was valued at $100m when Minister Macdonald awarded it to Doyles Creek Mining Pty Ltd (DCM) in 2008.  This ...

LOCAL families and retirees are calling on Upper Hunter MP Michael Johnsen to help them fight for compensation, as they continue to suffer from the loss of thousands of dollars in personal savings due to the NSW Government’s decision to cancel a coalmine licence. Almost 50, of about 3000, innocent ...