IT was the Newcastle Herald that forced the NSW Coalition government back in 2016 to finally confirm the existence of secret port commitment deeds the government kept hidden from the parliament during the privatisation of the state's major trading ports during 2013 and 2014.
Now, six years later, it's taken the community-first determination of Lake Macquarie Independent MP Greg Piper to bring government and opposition together by tabling a Private Members' Bill that neither side of politics could ignore or - in the end - outright oppose.
