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Cricket Australia chairman Mike Baird has been called up before a parliamentary committee investigating the KPMG whistleblower scandal. He was a member of the KPMG board which pushed for more scrutiny of the allegations.

Scandalised KPMG faces parliamentary house of horrors

Some of Australia’s most powerful people, including former NSW premier Mike Baird, have been ordered to appear at a public inquiry in Canberra into the growing whistleblower scandal at KPMG.

  • Colin Kruger

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NSW Premier Chris Minns.

NSW Labor’s in the box seat for a second term. Does it deserve it?

The most persistent criticism I hear of this government – from inside and outside – is about its perceived lack of ambition.

  • Michael McGowan
News Corp chairman Lachlan Murdoch and his father Rupert Murdoch were a notable omission from a consortium of investors that bought TikTok’s US operations, after being “involved” in talks late last year.

Lachlan Murdoch lieutenants close ranks on TikTok u-turn

While Donald Trump set off headlines about who was in talks to buy TikTok in the US, it turns out the Murdochs didn’t think it was worth it.

  • John Buckley and Gemma Grant
The fall that killed Cool Hand Rio in July.

Government sits on report into deadly Queensland greyhound track

Racing’s top bureaucrat said a series of deaths and injuries at The Q had “eroded public and stakeholder confidence in the greyhound industry”.

  • Cameron Atfield
Mike Baird and Jay Weatherill will be joining forces at the Susan McKinnon Foundation.

In the debate about more federal MPs, let’s ask how we get better ones too

Amid the discussion about whether we need more MPs, we should also explore how to get better ones. 

  • Bevan Shields
The ICAC is investigating a blow-out in spending on contractors under former building unit head Anthony Manning (front).

A new boss, his buddies and a $2.6 billion cash splash: Inside the ICAC probe into School Infrastructure

The ICAC is investigating a unit that insiders say “pushed the boundaries” when it came to department rules.

  • Michael McGowan and Lucy Carroll
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Former NSW Education Department Secretary Mark Scott leaving ICAC on Monday.

The one question that wasn’t asked before schools boss was hired

Former education secretary Mark Scott conceded in hindsight he should have questioned a “falling out” between Anthony Manning, the subject of an ICAC inquiry, and his former boss during the hiring process.

  • Michael McGowan
Circular Quay skyline

Circular Quay should be Sydney’s crown jewel. Instead, $170m has been spent on nothing

For all the ideas, plans, reports, artists’ impressions, concepts and competitions, nothing ever seems to get done to transform Circular Quay.

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Tony Mestrov ran Greyhound Racing NSW for five years.

The plot to close tracks that ‘would have started World War III’

Former Greyhound Racing NSW chief Tony Mestrov has lifted the lid on political pressure he says was placed on the code.

  • Chris Barrett
Former NSW premier Mike Baird says Cricket Australia’s communication with the game’s fans can improve.

‘We can’t tell people what to do’: Cricket boss on Australia Day, summer chaos and Warner

Former NSW premier Mike Baird says Cricket Australia can’t tell the public “how to respond or act” on issues such as the date of Australia Day.

  • Daniel Brettig