Former Labor ministers found to be corrupt: ICAC

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Ian Macdonald, Eddie Obeid facing charges after being found by ICAC to have acted corruptly

FORMER NSW Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid and former mining minister Ian Macdonald have been found by the NSW ICAC to have acted corruptly and referred for possible criminal charges.

The long-running Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry has also made corruption findings against Mr Obeid's son Moses.

The findings follow six months of sensational hearings and more than 150 witnesses.

ICAC has found the one-time head of the powerful Labor right faction Mr Obeid and his son Moses acted corruptly in the process of obtaining and selling a mining exploration licence on their property.

ICAC today tabled its report into three investigations that ran over a six month-period, finding corruption reached some of the highest levels in both the right and left of the NSW Labor Party.

The ICAC also found that senior mining executives Travers Duncan and John McGuigan acted corruptly, as did well known business figure John Kinghorn.

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption has found that Ian Macdonald, The Hon Edward Obeid MLC (Edward Obeid Sr), Moses Obeid, Travers Duncan, John McGuigan, John Atkinson, John Kinghorn and Richard Poole engaged in corrupt conduct in relation to their action involving the Mount Penny mining tenement in the Bylong Valley,” it said.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/ian-macdonald-eddie-obeid-facing-cha...

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If you care to look closer to home, then perhaps you'd like to look at Finance Minister for the current NSW Liberal government - Greg Pearce: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/nsw-finance-minister-greg-pearce-spent-22000-on-taxpayer-f...

This relic still has his job and the govt has no plans to remove him.

Can I brand all Liberals corrupt now too?

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I think the current liberal party could be called corrupt... all of them... cos they're duping people to vote for them blindly, without declaring the austerity harshness they'll implement after the election.

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...not to mention TA fraudulent claims:

http://www.phonytonyabbott.com/blog/how-the-taxpayer-paid-for-tony-abbott-to-compete-in-surf-races

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

...not to mention TA fraudulent claims:

http://www.phonytonyabbott.com/blog/how-the-taxpayer-paid-for-tony-abbott-to-compete-in-surf-races

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They paid for him to go to the footy, cricket and car races too

http://imputeation.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/6-attending-major-sporting-events.html

(information from same sources and http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/house_of_representatives_committees?url=pmi/...)

*  Poor Tony.  As a point of comparison Joe Hockey declared in his register of interests that he was the guest of Aviation Transport at the Bathurst V8 supercars in 2010 and they covered the cost of his attendence and charter travel.  Hockey seems to have made no claim of public expenses.  It's a shame that Tony had to rely on the Australian taxpayers to fund his V8 experience.  

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

...not to mention TA fraudulent claims:

http://www.phonytonyabbott.com/blog/how-the-taxpayer-paid-for-tony-abbott-to-compete-in-surf-races

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And given the hoopla that has been made of his 'volunteering' by the media (and many on here) who concluded that:

Abbott + volunteering = all-round-good-Aussie-with-a-great-heart

compared to

Gillard - volunteering = she-isn't-one-of-us-and-doesn't-care-about-others

...well talk about a slap in the face to that idea lol.

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Obeid claims he got Rudd’s NSW Labor ally his job

Eddie Obeid, the former NSW Labor Minister found by ICAC to have been corrupt, seems keen to drag down other Labor figures with him:

Mr Obeid said today [NSW Opposition Leader John] Robertson was “irrelevant”.

“He will get his day later, him and [NSW state secretary] Sam Dastyari,” he said.

“But that’s not the time for that now. These people wore out the carpet in my office when they wanted support. And even the Liberals had… someone watching my office.

”John Robertson and Sam Dastyari - I cannot believe these people who I supported, I mentored - I got ... - they don’t give me the benefit that every Australian should have, you’re innocent until proven guilty...”

Dastyari is Rudd’s man in NSW. He backed Rudd’s “reforms” to the NSW branch and will run Rudd’s marginal seats campaign. He’s also expected to take over the Senate seat of Mark Thistlewaite, who is replacing Peter Garrett as the member for Kingsford-Smith, voters willing.

This links the NSW scandal more firmly to Rudd, even if Dastyari is indeed as clean as he insists.

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lest we forget....a Liberal corruption tale not so long ago  http://www.senatorjohnfaulkner.com.au/file.php?file=%2Fnews%2FHQRYPBHXRQ%2Findex.html