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Why an MP, a convicted rapist, is keeping his taxpayer funded salary

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:16:40
Publish Date: 2025-08-04 19:00:00
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Picture this. A man has been convicted of rape. And as he sits in his prison cell, awaiting a sentence, he continues to be paid his taxpayer funded salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. He hasn’t been fired. 

It might sound implausible. But this case is playing out right now, with a NSW member of parliament. 

Today, state political editor Alexandra Smith on the case of Gareth Ward. And why behaviour that would get you fired from any job in the private sector, doesn’t automatically rule you out of making the law.

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