Mike Baird met with James Packer months before Barangaroo deal with Crown, inquiry hears

Former NSW premier tells parliamentary committee of ‘limited discussion’ about sight lines at 2015 meeting

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Former New South Wales premier Mike Baird met with James Packer three months before the government struck an agreement that paved the way for the billionaire’s Crown to secure major concessions for its Barangaroo development.

A parliamentary inquiry into potential bias in the multibillion-dollar Sydney harbourside project heard on Friday that one of the issues on the agenda for the February 2015 meeting was valuable “sight lines” over the harbour from the precinct.

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