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ICAC Won’t Lift Suppression for Parliamentary Oversight

WTW14 October 2015

[caption id="attachment_917" align="alignleft" width="135"] Chris Merritt - The Australian[/caption] The Independent Commission Against Corruption has refused to lift a suppression order over key documents from three completed inquiries because it...

ICAC In The Press

ICAC’s Failings are Caused by its Alien Structure

WTW2 October 2015

One of the enduring criticisms of the NSW justice system has been its failure to secure criminal convictions against those who have already been processed by the Independent Commission Against...

Before the Courts ICAC

NuCoal Innocent says ICAC, But Still No Compensation

WTW28 September 2015

With a determination handed down by Justice Stephen Rothman only last week, the Court found that ICAC acted in accordance with its common law duties, however, it also made statements...

In The Press Politics The Australian

Former Mining Minister Calls for Judicial Inquiry into State’s Anti-corruption Commission

WTW25 September 2015

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 ,...

Before the Courts Coal ICAC

NuCoal continues to pursue Free Trade Agreement action

WTW24 September 2015

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,...

ICAC Politics World

Nick Greiner, the only other premier to resign over ICAC- ABC April 2014

WTW10 September 2015

[caption id="attachment_689" align="alignleft" width="299"] Comments on ICAC in ABC Interview with Eleanor Hall[/caption] ELEANOR HALL: And just finally Mr Greiner, given that it's only really managed to claim two Liberal...

Coal ICAC Mining

Unjust mining act should be repealed

WTW24 July 2015

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...

Before the Courts ICAC Letters Politics

The Cancellation of Exploration Licence 7270 (Letter)

WTW29 May 2015

Dear Ms Lantry, I refer to your correspondence to the Premier, the Hon Mike Baird, MP, dated 5 May 2015 concerning the cancellation of Exploration Licence 7270 by the Mining...

Coal ICAC Mining World

NuCoal’s Loss, Shareholders Lose, Australia Loses

WTW30 January 2015

In December 2009, NuCoal acquired all of the issued capital of Doyles Creek Mining Pty Ltd (DCM) for $94 million and thereby Exploration Licence 7270 (EL 7270). On 23 November...

ICAC Politics World

ICAC – unfair, unjust and un-Australian

WTW24 November 2014

Having progress into the writing of my book about the NSW coal explorer NuCoal and the outrageous way in which it was stripped of a $360m coal project, I am...