Category: ICAC

I trusted him and I believed him when he said he hadn’t done anything wrong. That’s what Gladys has just told Robertson in reply to a question about why she didn’t twig to Maguire’s treachery. They are going to be her political epitaph. I trusted him. I trusted him. The former Premier says it again […]

Robertson stops the tape to grill Gladys about what we have just heard. He is brilliant this bloke. An absolute gun. These are body punches. There is another tape coming, and we all know it. Even Gladys does. She doesn’t know what’s on it. Or maybe she does. But she knows it is coming. We […]

They play a recording we heard yesterday in which Maguire talks about his ‘money project’ coming to fruition. Gladys says to him “Good. That will help me too”. Maguire then clarifies and says that he is talking about Wagga projects for the electorate. She says she is too. Robertson asks Gladys how she knew that […]

Gladys has been knocked down but she gets up. She’s fighting back hard, but she is wobbly. There are tears in her eyes still too. All this because of Maguire. The whole thing has come crashing down, just because this poor woman fell in love with a fiend. How cruel life is. But if you […]

Robertson cleverly draws Gladys into a discussion about the distinction between disclosing a relationship in relationship to a public service position (remember the cousins from this morning that she disclosed a relationship to) and not disclosing her relationship with Maguire. Then Gladys makes a very bad mistake. A shocker. She tells ICAC that the distinction […]

Robertson asks Gladys is she participated in the ERC decision to approve the funding for the Con. Yes. She didn’t declare any conflict of interest in projects involving Maguire MP? No. Why not? She had no personal interest in the project. It was simply an electorate matter involving an MP. The Commissioner jumps in. Why […]

Gladys answers a question about this very boring ERC/Shooters thing by saying “I didn’t remember”. Like a drowning and desperate man clutching for a piece of driftwood to keep him afloat Robertson jumps on it. “You said you didn’t remember! Does that mean you do now?” “No” says Gladys. “I am not being semantic. All I […]

It seems that the Shooters Party had won the Orange by-election, and the coalition were extremely concerned that the redneck voters in the bush had turned against them. The Shooter funding proposal was something the ERC approved to try to stem the flow. You can see shooting is not Gladys’s go, and she doesn’t like […]

Still they carry on about this agenda item for the Shooters. There is a note on the ERC (Expenditure Review Committee) agenda item paper where Gladys has said that this matter had been discussed in a meeting the week before with Maguire. In the next line it says that Maguire has been meeting with the […]

The hearing resumes. We’ve moved onto the Clay Target Shooting Association. Robertson the ICAC counsel wants to know if Gladys put a funding request for the Shooters (we will call it that for ease while we are writing live) on the agenda for an Expenditure Review Committee meeting in 2016. How is she supposed to […]