July 28, 2026 — 6:28pm
The latest Independent Commission Against Corruption investigation is likely to cause a stink in NSW politics that will linger for years.
Operation Rosny is examining allegations that a group of conservative Liberal Party powerbrokers known as the Reformers, including two brothers of former NSW premier Dominic Perrottet, accepted illegal political donations from wanted property developer Jean Nassif.
The inquiry heard that Nassif allegedly offered $2 million in donations from his now-collapsed property empire, Toplace, in exchange for political favours that may have included the replacement of then-minister for fair trading Kevin Anderson by Eleni Petinos, the removal of building commissioner David Chandler, and funding branch stacking against then-Coalition minister for police David Elliott.
In her opening address, counsel assisting the commission, Dr Peggy Dwyer, SC, said the ICAC would examine whether Nassif’s boastful claims about the then-premier being his “boy” and ministers being his “girls”, heard in tapped calls played to the commission on Monday, were “wishful thinking that serendipitously came to pass”, or the result of work paid to Liberals to achieve his ends.
