Category: ICAC

Another phone recording is played. Maguire is sulking. He sounds as petulant as an only child who has to share his bubble wand. He is carrying on like a clown about his favourite topic, bureaucrats and red tape. Gladys is clearly not really listening to him. Mmm, mmm she says. It’s obvious she is doing […]

This Robertson bloke who is the lead inquisitor for ICAC is making himself and his organisation look silly. He is no going down the road of trying to compare (a) Gladys having declared a conflict of interest and standing aside from a selection panel for a job that two of her friends were applying for […]

We have just heard a series of phone intercepts of calls between Gladys and Maguire. They were recorded on 16 May 2018. Maguire has directly rung the Premier and is carrying on like a pork chop about Wagga having missed out in the State Budget. Gladys tells him that she has sorted his request for […]

The mail has been wrong about this. Gladys’s enemies within and without have been beating this whole thing up into something it is not. They were good. They even spooked her enough to walk the plank. She shouldn’t have. Despite all the resources at their disposal – the phone taps on Maguire and the Premier, […]

The questioning by Counsel Assisting ends. Two barristers representing other parties pass on the opportunity to cross examine Maguire. Gladys barrister doesn’t. She want to try some damage control. It works. She confirms that Maguire had his own place in Sydney and didn’t always stay with Gladys. Sometimes he didn’t even tell her that he […]

More phone taps. Daryl and Gladys. Gladys – I just need to go and chill. Maguire – You go and chill, but just throw money at Wagga Gladys – I will throw money at Wagga, don’t you worry about that Maguire – You need to give them a stadium. Give them a fucking stadium Gladys […]

Daryl says that after he first appeared at a private ICAC hearing to be questioned about these matters he rang the Deputy Premier John Barilaro to discuss whether he had to resign, and did so before he spoke to Gladys about it. He rang Gladys next. She told him that he had to resign as […]

“The Government was concerned about the idea of building a commercial property for a private company weren’t they Mr Maguire” the witness is asked. “Governments are funny about that sort of thing” Maguire replies. Strange that. Maguire admits again under questioning that he advised both the Clay Target Shooting Association and the Riverina Con to […]

Daryl arranges a dinner with the Premier and the Treasurer. A bloke named Mangelsdorf or something similar came. He was a big wheel businessman in Wagga. ‘A success story’ Maguire describes him as. Leong the bloke who is building the industrial estate at Menangle was on the invitation list. Maguire says he didn’t attend. Phone […]

Daryl says that in 2015 he was not lobbying Gladys directly over the $20 million funding for the Con, simply communicating with her through formal channels. We go to the next year and a letter is produced showing direct communication with Gladys, who has just become Premier. Maguire is asked whether he is now lobbying […]