NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is refusing to stand by the legality of a $5.5 million grant he made following an “intervention” by Gladys Berejiklian and heavy lobbying by Daryl Maguire.

Journalists and media outlets campaigning against anti-corruption bodies are actively spreading a “massive trove of misinformation”, appear to be running a “deliberate campaign to mislead people”, says former top judge.

Up to $1 million of the $7.4m “cost” of the Wagga gun club development appears to be unaccounted for. It’s also revealed Wagga Wagga council approved the project even before NSW funding granted.

NSW Deputy Liberal Leader Stuart Ayres appears to have given false evidence to ICAC inquiry about his July 2016 visit to a Wagga Wagga gun club, that subsequently received a $5.5m grant.

The fund used to make the $5.5 million Wagga Wagga gun club grant was only created - by Dominic Perrottet as NSW Treasurer - months before Perrottet personally approved it.

The $5.5 million grant to fund a 1000-person convention centre at a gun club in Wagga Wagga was the only one - of over 90 grants - in the NSW Murray-Riverina region that went to a non-government entity.