Icac’s dirt files expose NSW’s ‘guns for hire’ problem. But neither major party is serious about lobbying reform

Summary

Chris Minns’s move to address the threat of undeclared lobbying falls well short of what the commission recommended five years ago Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast A 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…

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