On September 1, 2017, Premier Gladys Berejiklian was on the phone with her lover, Daryl Maguire, chatting away in the way intimate partners do, about nothing and anything."Hokis," said Berejiklian, using the couple's pet name for each other, an Armenian term of endearment meaning "my beloved" and "my soul".AdvertisementMaguire went on to relay his busy travel schedule - he had to go to Griffith, he said, and Canberra and then China.
Maguire was, as the Premier told the ICAC this week in excruciating evidence, the man with whom she was in a "close personal relationship".She told the inquiry their relationship with the father-of-two started in 2015, around the time of the election, and ended a few months ago. Maguire has variously said it started in 2013, 2014 or 2015 and was "on again off again".
The taped phone calls reveal a casual intimacy between the pair, with Maguire, an unsuccessful yet relentless deal-maker, wittering on about his business interests, and his dire financial situation.The inquiry heard the pair hoped to go public with their relationship after Maguire retired at the 2019 election.
The whiplash Berejiklian’s colleagues are feeling is replicated among voters, who, for the most part, have huge respect and admiration for their Premier, particularly because of her peerless leadership during the pandemic. Counsel assisting Scott Robertson said Icac should not be a “public trial as to the nature and extent of the relationship”, but that is precisely what commentators, colleagues and voters have been trying to ascertain this week.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian, flanked by her family, arrives at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney on election night 2019.Berejiklian's family background is well known - her parents, Krikor and Arsha, are of Armenian descent, part of the diaspora that followed the 1915 Armenian genocide, which claimed Berejiklian’s great-grandparents.
She moved into a flat in Willoughby that she had bought with money saved from her successful banking career. "He was always talking about big deals and they always seemed to fall through ... they always seemed quite fanciful to me," Berejiklian told the ICAC.
In SH18/10 saw photo of Barry O'Farrell, Gladys & Daryl. Saw Barry at run/walk event Wahroonga 2010.(I was 3rd in open 5km walk).Saw him at run/walk at Mt Annan 13/03/2011 &wondered why he was so far from own seat. At election 26/3/11Libs won Campbelltown 21% swing & govt.
Photo of Gladys, Daryl & Barry O'Farrell in S.H.18/10.Spoke to Barry at walk/run events in his seat and in 2010 when I came 3rd in open 5kmwalk.Surprised he was at walk/run at Mt Annan 3/2015 and wondered why so far from his base. 2 weeks later Libs won Campbelltown (14% swing).
Chocked its happening in workplaces,also powerful professional highly educated,highest university graduate,in highest powerful organisations,further more,can not be a shocked,if taxpayer's paying for this luxurious lovers,Why not shock her suport illegal scaffolding photo posted?
The womxn of the SMH are really piling on Gladys Berejiklian...
Two people in a personal relationship? Hardly a shock. Some of us do like to keep sex out of common conversation.
She craved it, was desperate for it, was willing to shit in her own nest to get it keepyourpantsongirls
It shocked me alright! The guy is dumb, fat, old and completely incompetent. That Gladys could have fallen for a loser.
Shocked!!.........?
'not the secret relationship but the 'blind eye' to corruption that shocked
'shocked'? Amused, certainly
JacquelineMaley Gladys knew what she needed to know. Just like Hacker but he had the benefit of a trusted British Civil Service in which Sir Humphrey decided what he should know
Has it occurred to the editors at SMH that Gladys is from a conservative Armenian background where relationships out of wedlock are taboo for women, even if they are at the age of 50 and that is the reason for the secrecy? Since when were people judged for their hookups?
It's not the relationship it's the CORRUPTION!
What a crap headline! Her relationship is not being questioned. Her ignoring corruption is the issue! NSWICAC
I find her continuing acceptance of corruption more shocking to be honest.
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