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Fred Nile has wasted no time in making good on one of the promises he made in March before the NSW election. Nile had signed a pledge with other members of the state’s Upper House. They had committed themselves to compensating innocent shareholders who had been wrongly caught up in ...

CHRISTIAN Democrat Fred Nile is pushing for shareholders in coal company Nucoal Resources to be compensated by the state for their losses over the cancellation of the company’s Doyles Creek exploration licence at Jerrys Plains. Reverend Nile also wants the Supreme Court to render ICAC findings about the way the ...

Key points: Fred Nile and Mark Latham are pushing for investors to be compensated over a scrapped $94m mine deal The MPs say blameless shareholders have been left out of pocket after the company’s licence was revoked American shareholders are also planning to seek compensation, which followed an ICAC inquiry ...

Mark Dreyfus’s plan to identify the best and worst features of the state anti-corruption commissions should focus the minds of those in NSW who persist in defending the indefensible. If Dreyfus becomes the next federal Attorney-General and follows through with this plan, NSW will inevitably dominate his list of the ...

Gladys Berejiklian’s freshly re-elected government in NSW now has four clear years in which to make amends for two of the most expensive errors ever made by a state parliament. It will cost millions of dollars to set things right, but the sooner the NSW Premier addresses this disaster, the ...

After talking to the NSW government for five years, drilling contractor Warwick Howarth felt he had no option but to resort to litigation to recoup the $28 million loss that he says was imposed on him by the government of former premier Barry O’Farrell. “We pretty much exhausted all avenues ...

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 ...

It’s easy to see why Mark Latham is among those who have pledged to compensate NuCoal Resources for what amounts to an act of state-sponsored theft. Latham hopes to win a seat in the NSW upper house on a platform that includes reinforcing property rights by forcing the state to ...

The next NSW government will be confronted with a bloc of crossbenchers in the upper house, possibly holding the balance of power, demanding millions of dollars in compensation for innocent victims of an ICAC-driven expropriation of private property. They have pledged to use their numbers in the upper house to ...

The next NSW government will be confronted with a bloc of crossbenchers in the upper house, possibly holding the balance of power, who are demanding millions of dollars in compensation for innocent victims of an ICAC-driven ­expropriation of private property. They have signed a pledge ­acknowledging that 3400 innocent shareholders ...