Fees paid to the directors of Singtel – the owner of Optus – have soared by more than 80 per cent in just one year.

The 100 per cent owner of Australian telco giant Optus, the Singapore Government-controlled Singtel, states it has “zero tolerance” for “bribery and corruption in any form”.

Former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been found to have engaged in “serious corrupt conduct” after a multi-year probe by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption.

The $5.5m Wagga Wagga gun club “function centre” project at the heart of the probe that felled Gladys Berejiklian is a taxpayer disaster — and even a financial albatross for the club itself.

Former NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro’s appointment to a plumb New York role represented a “jobs for the boys position”.

The directors of Optus owner Singtel were given major pay rises just weeks before the telco suffered one of the biggest data breaches in Australia’s history.