Maguire 'had ear' of premier: bureaucrat

By Tiffanie Turnbull
Updated October 27 2021 - 3:22pm, first published 3:18pm
NSW bureaucrat Gary Barnes was told Daryl Maguire "had the ear" of then premier Gladys Berejiklian.
NSW bureaucrat Gary Barnes was told Daryl Maguire "had the ear" of then premier Gladys Berejiklian.

A senior public servant who pushed through a grant now at the centre of a NSW corruption probe did so partly because the local MP - a "particularly pesky backbencher" and Gladys Berejiklian's secret boyfriend - "had the ear of the premier".

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