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Jun 10, 2024 · Appointed in 1992 by NSW premier Nick Greiner as chairman of the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART), Parry set the pace and example for micro-economic reform in Australia, years...
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Jun 26, 2024 · Their first significant scalp was then-premier Nick Greiner in 1992 for offering a colleague a statutory appointment. ICAC found corrupt conduct by Labor members Eddie Obeid, Joe Tripodi and Tony Kelly over political favours doled out to family, friends and colleagues.
Jun 24, 2024 · Your intrepid correspondent is old enough to remember that ICAC found former NSW Premier Nick Greiner corrupt for offering an overseas job to a cross bench member. From Wikipedia: Greiner was forced into a minority government, relying on support from four Independent MPs.
Jun 25, 2024 · A sad irony was that Nick Greiner, the Liberal premier who had the courage to establish it, became one of its early victims. In 1992 ICAC found he had misused his position to secure an independent MP’s resignation for political advantage.
Jun 27, 2024 · Greiner resigned in 1992 after a corruption inquiry went against him and Whelan returned to the Herald. She had been going out with a staff journalist, Christopher Henning.
Jun 30, 2024 · Greiner was forced to resign. In due course, the ICAC finding was reversed by the NSW Court of Appeal, but by then Greiner was out of his old job, and out of parliament.
3 days ago · In New South Wales, the Liberal Party has not been in office as much as its Labor rival, and just three leaders have led the party from opposition to government in that state: Sir Robert Askin, who was premier from 1965 to 1975, Nick Greiner, who came to office in 1988 and resigned in 1992, and Barry O'Farrell who led the party out ...
