Mudgee

Guilty plea to Mudgee teen's murder

A man has pleaded guilty to murdering 19-year-old Michelle Morrissey in her home in the central western NSW town of Mudgee.

Town reels as Mudgee teen found dead

Josephine Tovey and Sam Paine A ''bright and bubbly'' teenager who was found dead in her family home in Mudgee is believed to have been stabbed.

Labor's helping hand led to $1b yield

Anna Patty Former resources minister Ian Macdonald introduced legislation which overruled the highest court in NSW and resulted in a $1 billion windfall to two mining executives who have been under the scrutiny...

Macdonald deal documents kept from Parliament

Kate McClymont Almost 1000 pages of documents concerning the allegedly corrupt coal deal involving two former Labor ministers Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid were withheld from Parliament in 2009, a parliamentary...

Residents feel the pull of the east as high-rise living makes up ground

Matt Wade In a modest reserve in the suburb of Ermington, just north of the Parramatta River and not far from Olympic Park, is the point that marks the demographic centre of Sydney.

Magnate loses bid to shut down ICAC inquiry

Stephanie Gardiner Mining magnate Travers Duncan has lost his bid to shut down the Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry into a government coal tender, with a judge ruling the watchdog's commissioner has...

Man trapped for four days under car: reports

Dan Proudman A MAN, 74, has been found alive after reportedly spending four days trapped under his car.

Trapped under car for four days: 76-year-old's grim ordeal

Dan Proudman An elderly man has been rescued by his neighbours after he was found trapped under his car on a remote property in the state's central west.

Wealthy group's email war on ICAC

Kate McClymont One of a group of wealthy businessmen has widely circulated emails accusing the Independent Commission Against Corruption of making ''unsubstantiated and outrageous allegations'' against the group.

Third inquiry set to look at business with mates

Anne Davies Mateship is inherent in Australian culture. It can be a noble sentiment. But when does doing a favour for a mate cross the boundary into corrupt conduct, particularly when one is the mining minister...

Obeid son unable to explain possession of confidential maps

EDDIE OBEID'S youngest son, Eddie Obeid jnr, has told a corruption inquiry he could not explain how confidential coalmining maps had made their way into his family's offices at Birkenhead Point.

Macdonald had 14 bank accounts, ICAC told

Linton Besser and Kate McClymont The disgraced former resources minister Ian Macdonald had 14 separate bank accounts during his time as a NSW cabinet minister, a corruption inquiry has been told.

Secret deals, fast cars and a great sense of timing

Kate McClymont MULTIMILLIONAIRE car dealer Neville Crichton, who provided a heavily discounted black Ferrari to Moses Obeid, was one of a group of well-known eastern suburbs business figures who invested $28...

Magnificent seven's money-making machine

Kate McClymont It must have seemed like an eternity for Travers Duncan as the 80-year-old sat in the witness box at the state's most sensational corruption inquiry waiting for an intercepted telephone call to be...

A premier week for corruption probe

Kate McClymont Former New South Wales premier Morris Iemma will be the first witness to give evidence at what is expected to be one of the nation's most explosive corruption inquiries.

Obeid businesses in ICAC spotlight

Anne Davies Former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid lives in a $10 million mansion in Hunters Hill that is in his wife's name, drives a top of the line Mercedes and the family is about to undertake renovations...

Obeids spun lucrative mining web, ICAC told

HIGH-FLYING lawyers John McGuigan and Richard Poole spent late May and early June 2009 in tense negotiations.

Black loans, burnt boats and fast cars

Kate McClymont and Linton Besser A SPECTACULAR boat explosion, pointed guns, BRW rich listers and secret shareholdings in the British Virgin Islands are just some of the intriguing elements involving former government ministers,...