{"id":60635,"date":"2026-07-29T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/60635\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:48:09","slug":"senior-liberals-allegedly-tried-to-damage-career-of-former-minister-david-elliott-icac-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/60635\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Liberals allegedly tried to damage career of former minister David Elliott, ICAC told"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NSW corruption watchdog has heard senior Liberal Party operatives created a “David Elliott shit sheet” in alleged attempts to damage the former state minister’s career.<\/p>\n

On his second day of evidence at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), former Liberal staffer Dylan Whitelaw was asked about the document containing a list of political and personal allegations about Mr Elliott.<\/p>\n

Part of the ICAC probe is examining whether donations linked to fugitive property developer Jean Nassif were exchanged with lobbyists Jeremy Greenwood and Christian Ellis for political favours, including targeting the then-Liberal frontbencher.<\/p>\n

Mr Whitelaw said he did not remember preparing the specific document but acknowledged helping compile a list of Mr Elliott’s past controversies, including an incident where he was photographed firing a gun at a Corrective Services NSW property.<\/p>\n

\"Man<\/p>\n

Dylan Whitelaw gave evidence to the ICAC on Wednesday. (ABC News: Floss Adams)<\/p>\n

He said he understood that Mr Greenwood and Mr Ellis wanted to damage Mr Elliott’s political standing, but believed their actions reflected an internal factional conflict within the Liberal Party, rather than being directed by Mr Nassif.<\/p>\n

“I think it comes back to the standard factional warfare that occurs inside political parties,” Mr Whitlelaw told the commission.<\/p>\n

“The right wing of the Liberal Party had a hatred of the centre-right or the [federal MP] Alex Hawke faction, of which Mr Elliott was a leading figure.”<\/p>\n

Under questioning from Counsel Assisting Juliet Curtin, the ICAC also heard Mr Greenwood and Mr Ellis claimed to have photographs of Mr Elliott allegedly involved in an extramarital affair.<\/p>\n

The key figures in ICAC investigation<\/a><\/p>\n

Eight weeks of public hearings by the ICAC that could change the NSW Liberal Party forever begin on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr Whitelaw said the pair kept the details “very, very secretive,” saying he was not shown images or told specific information.<\/p>\n

“They just told me that they had photographs and then it was that ‘He was done, he was done’ but nothing ever came out of it,” Mr Whitelaw said.<\/p>\n

Elliott reportedly denies allegations<\/p>\n

When asked for a response to the allegations, Mr Elliott declined to respond to questions from the ABC.<\/p>\n

The Sydney Morning Herald has reported Mr Elliott released a statement denying all accusations made by Mr Whitelaw “and his colleagues on the religious right of the Liberal Party”.<\/p>\n

“As most of Sydney knows I’m a devoted husband of 30 years to a beautiful woman who doesn’t deserve to be treated like this by the party she has sacrificed so much for,” he said in the statement.<\/p>\n

“Needless to say I’m looking forward to the possibility of providing my own observations should the commission see fit to invite me to give evidence.”<\/p>\n

Under cross examination by Mr Elliott’s lawyer, Bruce Levet, Mr Whitelaw was challenged on whether an alleged extramarital affair took place.<\/p>\n

Mr Levet suggested to him that no photograph existed of Mr Elliott “leaving the residence of another woman”.<\/p>\n

Mr Whitelaw said he was “unaware of any specific photo” and reiterated that he was never shown any photographs.<\/p>\n

“I suggest to you that no such affair occurred,” Mr Levet asked.<\/p>\n

“I would accept that,” Mr Whitelaw responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NSW corruption watchdog has heard senior Liberal Party operatives created a “David Elliott shit sheet” in alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68562,22,21,33452,19536,63755,8137,68560,33171,33176,596,63915,33168,33167,13635,68561],"class_list":["post-60635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alex-hawke","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-charles-perrottet","tag-david-elliott","tag-dylan-whitelaw","tag-icac","tag-icac-rosny","tag-jean-nassif","tag-jean-claude-perrottet","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-independent-commission-against-corruption","tag-nsw-liberal-party","tag-operation-rosny","tag-political-donations","tag-shit-sheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}