Australian officials have been involved in confidential talks with the US aimed at heading off a formal trade dispute over the confiscation by NSW of US-owned assets worth $131 million. Unless the affair is resolved, Australia could come under pressure from the Trump administration to agree to international arbitration aimed ...
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Former NSW mining minister Ian Macdonald has called for a judicial inquiry into the state’s anticorruption commission after obtaining confidential transcripts in which witnesses, including Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese , gave evidence in his favour that was never made public . The transcripts were made during private compulsory examinations when ...
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NuCoal Resources Ltd today noted the findings of the New South Wales Supreme Court which today upheld the December 2013 report by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). NuCoal Chairman, Gordon Galt, said: “While the ICAC made no findings of wrongdoing by the company or any of its current directors ...
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Last month David Ipp sent a statement to The Australian about his December 2013 report on Operation Acacia – an unusual step indeed for a former commissioner of the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, who is also a former judge. The statement commented on matters that my company, NuCoal Resources ...
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