The Latest Breaking News from Craig Thomson

Ex-MP Craig Thomson has been stopped from travelling to India to oversee a shipment as he awaits sentencing over grant money he used on his own expenses.

A business trip to oversee packing of an edible plant is on the cards for disgraced former Labor MP Craig Thomson ahead of his sentencing and trials for fraud.

Former federal MP Craig Thomson says he will take action against police for what he claims is a malicious prosecution.

The former MP is also accused of faking COVID business grant and JobSaver applications.

The former Labor MP will face court on a range of fresh charges today, including allegedly making fraudulent applications for COVID-19 grants aimed at helping small businesses.

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Good morning, early birds. Independent NSW MP Gareth Ward has been charged with the alleged sexual abuse of a 17-year-old boy and a 27-year-old man in separate incidents, and the dramatic events of Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation trial continue. It’s the news you need to know, with Josefine Ganko.

Former federal Labor MP Craig Thomson is facing numerous fraud charges and is also accused of breaching an apprehended violence order on the NSW Central Coast.

MORNING BRIEFING: Independent MP Gareth Ward is under growing pressure to quit the parliament or be forced out after he was yesterday charged with alleged sex crimes, including against a teenage boy.