NSW Politics LIVE updates: Gladys Berejiklian stands firm as Premier after 'close, personal relationship' with Daryl Maguire revealed at ICAC hearing

A day after her explosive evidence at ICAC revealing her five-year "close personal relationship" with the now-disgraced former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire, Premier Gladys Berejiklian remains in the top job.

She has the support of her cabinet colleagues and shows no sign of stepping down.

Tomorrow, Parliament will vote on NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay's vote of no confidence in the premier and Mr Maguire will return to the ICAC hot seat for a highly anticipated couple of days of evidence.

That's all for today, but we'll be back tomorrow with the latest from ICAC and Macquarie Street. Good night and thank you for reading.

And in our final tranche of Herald reader correspondence (see also our posts at 4.23 and 4.37pm), we turn to those who might be regarded as offering a slightly more ambivalent view. They are, overall, rather supportive of NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and certainly not calling for heads to roll.

The Herald's readership has, unsurprisingly, offered many and varied views on the evidence of NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and whether she should stay or go in the top job. Here is a selection from the "pro-Gladys" pile, and we will follow up shortly with the less enraptured and those on the fence.

NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay has indicated she will move a motion of no confidence in NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and a vote is expected on this tomorrow.

Labor has insisted the premier must resign after ICAC heard evidence she was aware at least of some of former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire's business dealings while he was still in government. This included text messages from as far back as 2014, in which Mr Maguire told Ms Berejiklian he "should make 5k" after one of his "contacts sold a motel" for $5.8 million.

"Congrats!!! Great News!! Woo hoo," Ms Berejiklian, who was then transport minister, replied.

"Sharing with Chinese business partner so commission is 20k usually it’s 50% of that but I will only ask for 25% cause [it is] ... such a small sale," Mr Maguire said.

Tapped phone calls in 2017 also suggest Mr Maguire told Ms Berejiklian about prospective business deals, and that in some cases she indicated that she did not "need to know" more.

Ms Berejiklian has insisted she was not aware of any wrongdoing by Mr Maguire and believed he was declaring all financial interests as required, and that her comments about "not needing to know" alluded to the fact her working life was busy.

If you are just joining us now, here are the major developments today.

• Outside of the bear pit, where the NSW Labor Opposition has called on her to resign, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has garnered support from unusual quarters following her bombshell admission that she had been in a "close personal relationship" from 2015 with the man at the centre of the corruption watchdog's current inquiry, former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire.
• Among the bevy of unexpected supporters was federal Labor leader Bill Shorten, who said this morning that he had "sympathy for Gladys at the human level" and "she's a smart lady who I think has been punching below her weight with perhaps a much more average guy".
• Ms Berejiklian reiterated today that she had done "nothing wrong" and would not resign from office. She responded "no way" when asked if Mr Maguire was her spouse. She ceased contact with Mr Maguire last month, after he resigned following evidence at an earlier ICAC inquiry in 2018.
• ICAC heard today from Maggie Wang, one of Mr Maguire's former business associates. ICAC has heard Mr Maguire was involved in a number of prospective business ventures with Ms Wang while drawing a salary as an MP. The corruption watchdog heard today that Mr Maguire had told Ms Wang in 2018, after ICAC took an interest in his dealings, that his phones and iPad had been in a tangle with a tractor. Ms Wang concluded her evidence at ICAC today and left the witness box in tears.
• Mr Maguire is slated to appear at ICAC tomorrow from 10am. It is fair to say that his association with the NSW Premier has made his evidence far more interesting than it was before their former relationship became public on Monday.