Thanks to a report by ICAC inspector Bruce McClintock — and the benefits of parliamentary privilege — it is now possible to reveal what might well be a missing piece in the bizarre history of corruption in NSW. McClintock’s report, which has been tabled in the NSW parliament, outlines why ...
Read More »NSW ICAC kept witness’s amnesia report secret for five years
The NSW government’s anti-corruption agency faces accusations of misleading parliament after evidence emerged showing it had failed to disclose that one of its most important reports relied on evidence from a brain-damaged witness who had amnesia. The witness, investment banker Paul Gardner Brook, has a cognitive impairment after a frontal lobe ...
Read More »The Hon Dr Peter Phelps – Speech in Parliament (10/04/2018)
OPERATION ACACIA AND NUCOAL The Hon. Dr PETER PHELPS (18:05): In the past few weeks I have been looking at Operation Acacia, the NuCoal expropriation and the Independent Commission Against Corruption [ICAC]. I want to bring it all together in one final five-minute speech and look at the evidence I have adduced. ...
Read More »The Hon Dr Peter Phelps – Speech in Parliament (15/03/2018)
OPERATION ACACIA The Hon. Dr PETER PHELPS (16:26): I again discuss the Doyles Creek matter and Operation Acacia. On 25 February 2013 during the compulsory examination of Jamie Gibson, who is a former staff member of Mr Ian Macdonald, Counsel Assisting Braham attempted to convince Mr Gibson that a brief Mr Gibson thought ...
Read More »ICAC denies duty to reveal exculpatory material
NSW’s anti-corruption agency believes it is not required to disclose material that tends to exonerate those who are facing corruption inquiries. The Independent Commission Against Corruption believes disclosing exculpatory material is impractical because it would require the agency to reveal all of the information it assembles about people under investigation. ...
Read More »ICAC’s ongoing smear shows need for reform
Former NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption commissioner David Ipp, in his response to the review of that agency by its independent inspector, knows of no one whose reputation has been undeservedly trashed by the commission. Not one single person. He refers to several people, including former State Emergency Service commissioner ...
Read More »ICAC accusations leave a trail of destruction
Murray Kear is the latest to join me as a member of the ICAC survivor’s club: found innocent in court but not exonerated by this anti-corruption agency. Kear, a former commissioner of the NSW State Emergency Service, has been exonerated by the NSW justice system after being accused of corruption ...
Read More »So much for the rule of law in NSW!
The former head of the NSW anti-corruption agency has denied he was ever responsible for ensuring professional standards of conduct were adhered to by the barristers who worked for the agency as counsel assisting. David Ipp has told the NSW Supreme Court that it was not part of his duties, ...
Read More »Political stitch up from the start………
One day the truth will come out as to why the O’Farrell Government specifically went against the recommendation in the Clayton Utz report and sent the investigation of EL 7270 to ICAC, rather than a Special Commission of Inquiry as recommended by Clayton Utz. The report clearly stated at page 16 that ...
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