NSW’s corruption watchdog exposed widespread illicit lobbying, yet both major parties remain complacent, failing to implement the serious reforms needed to stop paid influence peddling.
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Chris Minns’s move to address the threat of undeclared lobbying falls well short of what the commission recommended five years agoGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastA dirt file on a state minister peddled to journalists. A subterranean campaign to discredit the building commissioner. Convincing the Liberal party to unseat councillors in the Hills district who were blocking a developer.The New South Wales corruption watchdog’s recent inquiry, Rosny, revealed the ease with which the key protagonists – a group of rightwing Liberal operatives known as the Reformers, most of whom were former staffers – could move along the corridors of NSW parliament. Continue reading...
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