Chris Minns’s move to address the threat of undeclared lobbying falls well short of what the commission recommended five years ago

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A dirt file on a state minister peddled to journalists. A subterranean campaign to discredit the building commissioner. Convincing the Liberal party to unseat councillors in the Hills district who were blocking a developer.

The New South Wales corruption watchdog’s recent inquiry, Rosny, revealed the ease with which the key protagonists – a group of rightwing Liberal operatives known as the Reformers, most of whom were former staffers – could move along the corridors of NSW parliament.