Senior Staffers Defend Former Premier at Corruption Inquiry

Senior Staffers Defend Former Premier at Corruption Inquiry
Former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks to the media during a COVID-19 press conference in Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 9, 2021 Bianca De Marchi - Pool/Getty Images
Rebecca Zhu
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A senior staffer of the former New South Wales (NSW) premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has told a corruption inquiry that while the state leader should have declared her relationship with Daryl Maguire as a conflict of interest, she always behaved by the rules in a “principled fashion.”

The NSW anti-corruption watchdog is investigating whether Berejiklian breached public interest or turned a blind eye to the corruption of her former secret partner, Maguire.