Premier Gladys Berejiklian encouraged her covert boyfriend Daryl Maguire in a 2017 conversation to quit parliament at the 2019 New South Wales (NSW) election so they could make their relationship public, an anti-corruption inquiry has heard.
But she denied deliberately blinding herself to information about Maguire’s financial interests and attempts to clear his $1.5 million debt—now under the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) spotlight—in order to maintain plausible deniability on the matter.
