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A corruption hearing has heard former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian telling her secret MP boyfriend Daryl Maguire that a public servant's "head would be gone" but only after he "fixed" a grant proposal in his electorate. Ms. Berjiklian today began her evidence at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) as it investigates whether she breached public trust due to the undeclared relationship with the disgraced Wagga Wagga MP Mr. Maguire.... Ms. Berejiklian told the commission she couldn't remember whether she indicated support before or after their advice, but "top of mind" was the potential repercussions of the Orange by-election. "Is...

NEW YORK Accompanied by hail and rain, a "mini-tornado" that tore up a patch of southeastern Australia on the evening of March 2 damaged not only houses, cars, trees, and a train, but also "blew down two walls and damaged the printing press at The Border Mail," in Wodonga, according to an account today in The Age, in Melbourne. Border Mail Deputy Editor Cameron Thompson told Age reporter Sasha Shtargot that his paper was printed that night at The Daily Advertiser, in Wagga Wagga, while its press was being repaired. No one at Goss International's headquarters near Chicago could be...