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Trad must hand back CCC cash to state after legal win

While the final taxpayer bill for the secretive legal fight is finalised, the government remains coy about plans to answer key anti-corruption agency questions.

  • Matt Dennien

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Former deputy premier Jackie Trad campaigning in her seat of South Brisbane before the 2020 state election, which she ultimately lost to now Greens MP Amy MacMahon.

Former deputy premier wins bid to gag CCC report

Jackie Trad released her first lengthy public statement about the case, saying the corruption probe had a significant impact on her life, both political and personal.

  • Cloe Read and Matt Dennien
Members of the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission appear at a public meeting of the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee on Friday, September 15, after the dismissal of an appeal to the High Court to publish a report on an investigation into former public trustee Peter Carne.

Carne and Trad reports should be public, anti-corruption boss says

After a court muzzled the public reporting of Queensland’s corruption watchdog, its boss says a parliamentary body might still have the power in one case.

  • Matt Dennien
Employment Minister Shannon Fentiman and Treasurer Jackie Trad have announced that the payroll tax would be deferred for some businesses in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. 

A-G approved taxpayer funding for Jackie Trad’s legal fight against CCC

After the further detail was revealed on Wednesday, the shadow attorney-general questioned why the scheme was used as a “sword, not a shield”.

  • Matt Dennien
Then-deputy premier Jackie Trad in late 2018. The CCC has revealed it has spent more than $74,000 on external legal fees fighting court action brought by Trad in May last year.

Qld Labor MPs relent and release CCC’s legal costs in secretive Trad case

A parliamentary committee has revealed part of the costs taxpayers have incurred in court action by former deputy premier Jackie Trad against the anti-corruption watchdog.

  • Matt Dennien
Former deputy premier Jackie Trad campaigning in her seat of South Brisbane before the 2020 state election, which she ultimately lost to now Greens MP Amy MacMahon.

Four Labor no-shows thwart LNP effort to air Trad saga details

The majority of a powerful committee have failed to show at a public meeting where they would have had to again vote on releasing corruption watchdog details about its costs in ongoing court action by the former deputy premier.

  • Matt Dennien
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Labor MPs hide corruption watchdog’s legal costs in secretive Trad case

The move has been labelled a “protection racket” by the LNP opposition, which had sought to release redacted CCC correspondence about the ongoing court battle.

  • Matt Dennien
Former deputy premier Jackie Trad campaigning in her seat of South Brisbane before the 2020 state election, which she ultimately lost to now Greens MP Amy MacMahon.

CCC poised to act if more people join Trad in seeking to block its findings

Queensland’s anti-corruption agency will seek advice on the broader implications of court actions – like that of former deputy premier Jackie Trad – to suppress its findings if more arise.

  • Matt Dennien
Then deputy premier and treasurer Jackie Trad and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announcing the state budget together in 2018.

Taxpayers may have to pay Trad’s tab for secretive CCC court action

The government is refusing to detail the extent of its support for Queensland’s former deputy premier Jackie Trad in her until-recently hidden action against the corruption watchdog.

  • Matt Dennien
Former deputy premier Jackie Trad campaigning in her seat of South Brisbane before the 2020 state election, which she ultimately lost to now Greens MP Amy MacMahon.

Judge lifts lid on Trad’s sensitive bid to keep CCC report secret

Tight suppression of the Supreme Court matter, similar to action being taken by former Public Trustee Peter Carne, was lifted on Thursday after an earlier row under parliamentary privilege.

  • Matt Dennien

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