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The Liberal Premier of New South Wales, Barry O’Farrell has resigned, after a handwritten thank-you note for a 1959 bottle of Grange was tendered at ICAC.
The thank-you note was handed to ICAC this morning by Nick Di Girolamo, the chief executive of Australian Water Holdings. Yesterday, O’Farrell denied receiving the gift or phoning Di Girolamo to thank him.
O’Farrell described his behaviour as a “massive failure of memory”. [Read more…]
The High Court has upheld a challenge to New South Wales’s election donation laws.
The challenge was brought by Unions NSW to the changes legislated by the O’Farrell government in 2012.
The effect of the challenge is to invalidate the changes and make it legal for unions and corporations to donate to political parties. Money spent on election advertising by unions affiliated to the ALP will now not be included in the ALP’s expenditure limits. [Read more…]