A Four-Legged Lottery

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 […]

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 […]