I cannot pretend to be terribly surprised or shocked to learn that the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption is to soon hold public hearings into NSW Liberal Party factional branch stacking, preselection rorts, and receipt of prohibited donations, primarily from the real estate industry.
It's been coming for years, and most of the primary allegations are on the public record, which is to say the Hansard of the NSW Parliament. ICAC does not, as such, deal in matters of guilt or innocence, or make findings about breaking the criminal law, but every man, woman and dog knows that there's an awful lot of smoke within this fire.
Most of it involves machinations of the conservative right-wing faction of the Liberal Party, active members of which, in recent years have included Tony Abbott, Angus Taylor, Dominic Perrottet and John Howard.
