Secret government documents reveal senior bureaucrats were worried development of Western Sydney Airport could be “held captive” by a company controlled by billionaire dairy farmers Tony and Ron Perich.
The documents were demanded by the Senate as part of inquiries into the 2018 purchase of a paddock from the Perich’s Leppington Pastoral Company (LPC) for $30 million, which was later valued at just $3 million.
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