Investigation

Inside Operation Rosny

The Independent Commission Against Corruption’s wide-ranging investigation into Sydney property developer Jean Nassif’s links to Liberal Party powerbrokers, multiple councils and the state’s Catholic schools.

  • Analysis
  • ICAC

The anti-corruption agency failed to challenge an explosive exchange about a cabinet reshuffle that can easily be disputed with a basic fact.

  • Bevan Shields

  • Analysis

  • ICAC

Unlike many reluctant appearances at Operation Rosny, the former police minister appeared to be relishing his day in the witness box on Friday.

  • Kate McClymont

The Catholic Schools NSW chief is gone and a former police minister was the happiest ICAC witness ever.

  • Ben Cubby and Jessica McSweeney

  • Updated

The corruption watchdog has heard new details of an at times comical campaign of surveillance and intimidation against the state’s police minister.

  • Bevan Shields, Jessica McSweeney and Alexandra Smith

  • Updated

A senior political staffer showed MP Eleni Petinos a video she could use to “get rid of” building commissioner David Chandler.

  • Bevan Shields and Jessica McSweeney

Senior counsel leading the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s case against a group of conservative Liberal Party operatives was left dumbstruck by the admission.

  • Bevan Shields and Jessica McSweeney

By mixing business with political pleasure Dallas McInerney has found himself in the spotlight, rather than the shadows where he prefers to operate.

  • Bevan Shields

  • Analysis

At a corruption inquiry into branch stacking and illegal donations, Catholics Schools NSW CEO Dallas McInerney said he had done nothing wrong.

  • Kate McClymont

The union representing Catholic school teachers wants greater transparency after a corruption inquiry alleged its peak body funnelled cash to Liberal Party operatives.

  • Christopher Harris

  • Analysis

Such profound memory failure has not been seen since back in May 1994, when a notorious bankrupt businessman was being questioned about offshore accounts.

  • Kate McClymont

  • Updated

Jeremy Greenwood said repeatedly that he could not remember what work his consultancy firm Beckington did for Catholic Schools NSW.

  • Alexandra Smith and Jessica McSweeney

  • Exclusive

A senior NSW Liberal and long-time party insider this week quipped that he didn’t even know there was a Coffs branch.

  • Alexandra Smith

  • Analysis

As corruption investigators put the finishing touches on a four-year probe, Jeremy Greenwood flew to the other side of the world.

  • Bevan Shields

The prohibited donation is a fresh headache for the once-dominant party, which is in crisis amid an explosive ICAC investigation.

  • Bevan Shields

Redfield College is in the spotlight after several former students became targets in an Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry.

  • Ben Cubby

  • Exclusive

Eleni Petinos, the shadow minister for jobs and industry, received a summons from the Independent Commission Against Corruption to appear at the inquiry in the coming weeks.

  • Michael McGowan

The ICAC is examining three main allegations concerning sections of the NSW Liberal Party, Catholic Schools NSW and Sydney business figures. Here are five things we learnt in week two.

  • Michael Ruffles, Jessica McSweeney and Alexandra Smith

  • Analysis

Tapped phone calls should remind the public – and politicians seeking to undermine the ICAC’s work – of the grave nature of this latest probe.

  • Bevan Shields

  • Analysis

A small group of people from a number of large families feature prominently in a bombshell inquiry into branch stacking and illegal donations.

  • Kate McClymont

  • Updated

One-time Catholic Schools NSW employee Jean-Claude Perrottet was “let go” from his job just one month before a corruption inquiry started.

  • Alexandra Smith, Jessica McSweeney and Bevan Shields

  • Analysis

Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane surely won’t want one of the Liberal Party’s faceless men showing his face any time soon.

  • Bevan Shields

  • Opinion

The shadow of those allegations reaches out and touches all who somehow come under the “Catholic school” umbrella.

  • Anne Benjamin

  • Updated

The Independent Commission Against Corruption has heard about the breakdown in relations between key members of the Reformers.

  • Alexandra Smith and Jessica McSweeney

  • Analysis

Day six of the ICAC’s blockbuster inquiry was reminiscent of the fantasy TV series, including allegations of backstabbing at former premier Dominic Perrottet’s wedding.

  • Kate McClymont

Here are five key revelations from the blockbuster NSW anti-corruption inquiry – and a look ahead to what we can expect next.

  • Michael Ruffles and Ben Cubby

They began with the aim of taking back politics for right-wing Christian causes. Three of them ended up dealing with Jean Nassif, the ICAC has heard.

  • Ben Cubby, Jessica McSweeney and Alexandra Smith

Reformers founder Robert Assaf says he was “young and immature” and did not understand political donation laws.

  • Alexandra Smith and Jessica McSweeney

  • Exclusive

Chris Rath was captured tipping off at least one of the members of the NSW Reformers about the whereabouts of process servers hired to track them down ahead of a parliamentary inquiry.

  • Michael McGowan and Bevan Shields

  • Analysis

Robert Assaf admitted to submitting fake invoices during a corruption hearing on Friday – but blamed his “dodgy” former friend.

  • Kate McClymont

  • Analysis

Liberal Party operative Robert Assaf spent an uncomfortable day in the witness box of a wide-ranging probe into illegal donations.

  • Kate McClymont

  • Analysis

Is ignorance an excuse? There are several reasons emerging at the ICAC’s Liberal Party corruption inquiry about why that doesn’t quite stack up.

  • Bevan Shields

  • Exclusive

The mention of former MP Chris Spence in the ICAC’s Liberal donations inquiry, Operation Rosny, brought back some bad memories for many in the party.

  • Kate McClymont

  • Analysis

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption left an unexploded political bomb on the doorstep of the federal opposition leader. Despite his attempts to defuse it, there may still be peril lurking for Taylor.

  • Bevan Shields

  • Analysis

Dylan Whitelaw kept his cool as counsel assisting questioned his knowledge of contractor payments.

  • Kate McClymont