by Chris Merritt | May 12, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Watching Shane Drumgold KC explain himself this week to Walter Sofronoff KC has been like witnessing a fatal car crash. It’s tragic and bloody but you cannot turn away. Drumgold’s concessions and admissions before Sofronoff’s board of inquiry must raise...
by Chris Merritt | Apr 28, 2023 | Chris Merritt, ICAC, Media Article
Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass is right. Last week’s report on misconduct inside the government of Daniel Andrews was not merely educational, as claimed by the Premier. It was much worse. That report by the state’s anti-corruption commission contains accusations...
by Chris Merritt | Apr 28, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
When Dominic Perrottet’s Coalition government lost office in NSW, it left a magnificent gift for the incoming Labor administration. It should not be ignored. Gathering dust in the government archives in Sydney are two reports from parliamentary committees that were...
by Chris Merritt | Mar 31, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
Former union leader John Maitland spent almost two years in prison for a crime he did not commit. And now he wants justice – not for himself but for thousands of others. Nobody can give Maitland back those lost years. But he wants the new Labor government of NSW to...
by Chris Merritt | Jan 20, 2023 | Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
Just before Christmas, when John Maitland was finally acquitted of ICAC-related charges, the fate of this former union leader drove home a lesson that supporters of anti-corruption show trials seem incapable of grasping. It’s this: these commissions resolve nothing....
by Chris Merritt | Jan 13, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
Ten weeks from now, Labor’s Chris Minns will lead his party at an election in NSW that could make him the next premier of the nation’s most populous state. So why has NSW Labor chosen this moment to launch legal action that reopens one of the most embarrassing...
