Australia’s news media has settled into a firmly held, but largely unproven, view that the cautiously (but significantly) reformist NSW Labor government of Neville Wran in the 1980s was at best lax and at worst “riddled” with corruption.
For a state premier who’s been gone from public life for nearly 40 years, it seems there’s still a lot of media attention to be gained off his name. He popped up most recently in the context of the 2021 Berejeklian resignation (itself back in the news after the NSW Court of Appeals rejected
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