The Latest Breaking News from John Maitland

Antiques Roadshow expert’s collection sells for double its estimate

Hugo Morley-Fletcher died in 2022, aged 82. His personal collection raked in a sum of £249,201 under the hammer.

Evening Standard · Mar 12, 2025

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 · Mar 24, 2023

Ex-NSW minister given second jail term for corruption

He will be eligible for parole in 2027.

Newcastle Herald · Mar 24, 2023

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.

AAP · Dec 20, 2022

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

Newcastle Herald · Nov 9, 2022

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.

AAP · Nov 9, 2022

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.

Newcastle Herald · Sep 8, 2022

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.

AAP · Sep 8, 2022

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.

Newcastle Herald · Sep 7, 2022

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.

ABC News · Sep 7, 2022