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Why does Labor keep using the phrase ‘Greens political party’?

The description of the Greens as a ‘political party’ is accurate. Yet people associated with both Labor and the Greens agree it’s clearly intended as a smear.

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"I remember listening back to that and thinking: What the hellis this?!": Behind the scenes at the recording of King Crimson's trailblazing In The Court Of The Crimson King

Tales of the first true progressive rock album, from two of the men who made it

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Obeid could serve ICAC deception sentence from home

Lawyers for Moses Obeid have argued his sentence for lying to a 2012 ICAC probe could take the form of community service rather than being spent behind bars.

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House in High Park is a Toronto home to be discovered slowly

House in High Park by Ian MacDonald Architect is a new-build home in Toronto that takes a problematic plot and transforms it into an exhilarating, contemporary residence

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Corrupt ex-minister Eddie Obeid loses bid for freedom

Ex-NSW Labor ministers Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald, as well as Obeid's son Moses, have failed in an attempt to have their convictions quashed.

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"The worst track we ever had to record" – why 3/4 of the Beatles hated Maxwell's Silver Hammer

No Paul McCartney song ever incurred the joint wrath of Lennon, Harrison and Starr quite like Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Here’s why…

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Obeids, Macdonald appealing Hunter Valley coal licence conviction

The trio have appealed to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal

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Obeid, Macdonald appealing NSW coal licence conviction

A lawyer involved in an appeal by Eddie Obeid and his co-conspirators says the trio was convicted even though the acts they conspired to do were not specified.

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Ex-NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald gets 14-year jail sentence for corruptly awarding mine licence

Former resources minister Ian Macdonald will stay in jail until at least 2027 for misconduct in public office involving two mining licences.

ABC News

Ex-NSW minister given second jail term for corruption

He will be eligible for parole in 2027.

Newcastle Herald

Macdonald's Hunter Valley mining call 'betrayed' the people of NSW

"There was planning, and he was the instigator."

Newcastle Herald

Former NSW minister 'betrayed' state for mining venture

NSW was betrayed by then mines minister Ian Macdonald when he granted a coal exploration licence to a company chaired by a former union boss, a prosecutor said.

AAP

Ex-Labor minister again found corrupt over Hunter Valley mining licences

The court on Tuesday found Macdonald had no reasonable cause or justification to grant two licences to Hunter Valley company Doyles Creek Mining in 2008.

Newcastle Herald

Former NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald found guilty of corruptly awarding mining licence

Former NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald has been found guilty of wilful misconduct after granting a mining licence to a company run by former union boss John Maitland.

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Ex-Labor minister again found corrupt

Former NSW minister Ian Macdonald has again been found guilty of corruptly awarding a preliminary mining licence, but ex-CFMEU boss John Maitland is acquitted.

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No Xmas bail for Eddie Obeid and son

Former NSW Labor minister Eddie Obeid and his son Moses have lost their bid for bail pending the hearing of their conviction appeals in April.

Newcastle Herald

Anxious wait for former MP and union boss over Hunter Valley mining charges

Justice Hament Dhanji said he would try to hand down the verdict before Christmas

AAP

Ex-NSW minister awaits corruption verdict

A judge hopes to deliver his verdict on corruption charges against former NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald and ex-union boss John Maitland before Christmas.

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Four state scandals that show what a federal anti-corruption commission could uncover

From Eddie Obeid to ‘Mr Ipswich’, state anti-corruption bodies have already shown how they can hold the powerful to account

Newcastle Herald

Ian Macdonald and John Maitland had 'no relationship, no debt', court told

The former Labor politician denies spinning a story to financially benefit the ex-union boss who says there was no deal for him to financially benefit from a lucrative coal exploration mining licence.

AAP

Ex-union boss tells judge no debt existed

Former ALP politician Ian Macdonald denies in the NSW Supreme Court that he did anything wrong by awarding a coal exploration licence to an ex-union boss.

Newcastle Herald

Former minister Ian Macdonald 'cost NSW $100 million', court told

Macdonald, 73, has pleaded not guilty to misconduct in public office accused of favouring the interests of the mining company by directly allocating the licence without inviting expressions of interests or a competitive tender.

ABC News

Retrial of former NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald and John Maitland begins

Ian Macdonald and ex-union boss John Maitland are charged with wilful misconduct in public office after a mine licence was directly allocated to a company Mr Maitland chaired.

AAP

Ex-minister cost NSW millions, judge told

The retrial of Ian Macdonald has been told the former NSW Labor minister cost the state millions by improperly granting an Upper Hunter mining licence.

AAP

Trial for ex-Labor politician adjourned

The criminal retrial for Ian Macdonald has been postponed after the former NSW minister's lawyers could not properly discuss the case with him in jail.

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