Cabinet office to review projects in region after premier told parliament he had concerns Tim Crakanthorp may have acted for ‘private interests’
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news rounduphe came forward about the properties this week in an act of “self-reporting”. But the premier has refused to back those claims. Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation pointed to infighting in Labor’s Hunter branches, stemming from long-running tensions over a bitter preselection contest involving Crakanthorp nine years ago.
The project is one of many being urgently reviewed by a cabinet office review announced by Kamper on Thursday, alongside the Newcastle-Sydney rail line upgrades, Newcastle airport capacity expansion and Newcastle light rail extension. “I do have concerns and I do have to report to the House that there may have been matters over the preceding four months that may have caused other breaches or cause for an investigation by the corruption watchdog, particularly in relation to those undisclosed properties and his actions as a minister,” Minns told parliament on Thursday.
In June, Crakanthorp was reported as having told a Property Council event that he had been in contact with Kamper about the Hunter Park sporting and entertainment precinct and it was “very much a focus for our government”.
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