Peggy Dwyer
AustralialawyerFemale5.3Global Dominance: 0.03%Peggy Dwyer is a Senior Counsel who is known for her expertise in legal matters and her role in high-profile inquests in Australia. Recently, she has been in the news as the counsel assisting the inquest into the tragic Westfield Bondi Junction attack, where she presented the opening address and is tasked with examining the events surrounding the case.
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The counsel assisting the ICAC has been a force of nature, interrogating and demolishing the evidence proffered by many in the witness box.
Biggest idiot, grubbiest behaviour, best phone tapAustralia· 2026-09-26
Counsel assisting Dr Peggy Dwyer, SC said: 'Mr Maheswaran, I suggest to you that you relied on your position as a lawyer, to suggest to Mr Mookhey that he should take seriously these allegations of corruption against the building commissioner.'
Mookhey referred commissioner claims to ICAC after meeting Labor lawyerAustralia· 2026-09-25
Peggy Dwyer, SC, read from a transcript of evidence given by Adrian Healey during a private hearing.
Former Toplace lawyer Sharangan Maheswaran to resume evidence about Jean Nassif recordingsAustralia· 2026-09-24
Peggy Dwyer is the counsel assisting the ICAC inquiry.
Sharangan Maheswaran appears in ICAC hearingsAustralia· 2026-09-23
Peggy Dwyer, SC, questioned Sharangan Maheswaran during the inquiry.
Sharangan Maheswaran, former Toplace lawyer and Strathfield councillor, to continue evidenceAustralia· 2026-09-23Dr Peggy Dwyer accused Maheswaran of lying during the commission's hearings.
Former Toplace lawyer denies lying to commission over $148,500 cheque, Liberal fundraiserAustralia· 2026-09-21
Peggy Dwyer, SC, put to Maheswaran: 'You understood from reading that message, and no doubt conversations with Jeremy Greenwood, that money being paid to Beckington was being used to build up the right faction of the Liberal Party.'
Former Toplace lawyer, Strathfield councillor Sharangan Maheswaran to resume evidenceAustralia· 2026-09-21Peggy Dwyer is the counsel assisting the commission during the inquiry.
What we learnt from ICAC week eightAustralia· 2026-09-20
Dr. Peggy Dwyer is counsel assisting the inquiry.
ICAC witness Sharangan Maheswaran stretches credulity and patienceAustralia· 2026-09-18
Peggy Dwyer, SC, is a lawyer who questioned Maheswaran during the commission.
Sharangan Maheswaran, former Strathfield councillor, Toplac lawyer to give evidenceAustralia· 2026-09-18Dr Peggy Dwyer is the counsel assisting the inquiry who questioned Jeremy Greenwood.
Jeremy Greenwood accused of ‘manufacturing evidence’ about work Anita Perrottet didAustralia· 2026-09-16Dr. Peggy Dwyer, SC, is the counsel assisting the commission, questioning Jeremy Greenwood about the payments to Anita Perrottet.
ICAC says evidence is ridiculousAustralia· 2026-09-16Peggy Dwyer opened the public hearing by challenging Jeremy Greenwood’s previous evidence about Anita Perrottet.
Jeremy Greenwood evidence resumes; Jean Nassif slams David Elliott, David Chandler in chaotic appearanceAustralia· 2026-09-16Dr. Peggy Dwyer is the counsel assisting the Operation Rosny inquiry.
Fugitive Jean Nassif melts downAustralia· 2026-09-15Peggy Dwyer is the counsel assisting the inquiry who questioned Jeremy Greenwood about his statements.
What we learnt from week seven’s appearances by Liberal lobbyist Jeremy GreenwoodAustralia· 2026-09-11
Dr Peggy Dwyer is the counsel assisting the inquiry who questioned Greenwood.
Liberal operative and lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood has memory loss in public hearingAustralia· 2026-08-12
Counsel assisting, Peggy Dwyer, SC, asked Greenwood if the arrangement was in fact a way to pay a 'mate' rather than for the actual introduction to Catholic Schools NSW.
Jeremy Greenwood evidence to continue; NSW Reformers’ plan to discredit David Elliott revealedAustralia· 2026-08-12Peggy Dwyer is assisting the commission in questioning the lobbyists about their actions.
Christian Ellis sent invoices under fake staffer’s name, Operation Rosny toldAustralia· 2026-08-11
Counsel assisting Dr Peggy Dwyer, SC, told the commission in her opening statement about Ellis declining to give oral evidence.
Liberal Party figure urged NSW Reformers to ‘quit’, Operation Rosny toldAustralia· 2026-08-10
Peggy Dwyer, SC, has called the arrangements sham in the context of the investigation.
Jeremy Greenwood says Christian Ellis wants to give evidenceAustralia· 2026-08-10
Dr Peggy Dwyer, SC, is counsel assisting the commission and addressed the inquiry about Mr Nassif's predictions.
NSW Liberal Party frontbencher called to give evidence at Operation RosnyAustralia· 2026-08-07
Counsel assisting Dr Peggy Dwyer read out a text to Ellis during the commission hearing.
Operation Rosny uncovers Catholic Schools NSW paid $135k salary for Liberal factional workAustralia· 2026-08-03
Peggy Dwyer alleged three NSW Liberal apparatchiks struck a deal with fugitive Sydney developer Jean Nassif.
Angus Taylor’s donations, Dominic Perrottet ‘too woke’ and moreAustralia· 2026-08-01
Dr Peggy Dwyer, SC, is counsel assisting at the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s Operation Rosny inquiry.
Liberal Party corruption inquiry hears Reformers members didn’t know the rulesAustralia· 2026-07-30
Dr Peggy Dwyer is the ICAC counsel assisting in outlining the inquiry's findings.
Kellie Sloane’s response to ICAC’s Operation Rosny is puzzling when NSW Liberal Party is strugglingAustralia· 2026-07-29
Peggy Dwyer is the counsel assisting the ICAC in its Operation Rosny inquiry.
ICAC barrister Peggy Dwyer is about to become a household nameAustralia· 2026-07-28
Dr Peggy Dwyer is the counsel assisting the commission, warning about the serious implications of the alleged wrongdoing.
How Michael O’Hara funded a NSW Liberal Party takeover from the ReformersAustralia· 2026-07-27Counsel assisting Peggy Dwyer has told the inquiry about Michael O’Hara's payments.
Michael O’Hara, Dylan Whitelaw and Robert Assaf first witnesses as investigation begins into NSW Liberal Party’s association with Jean NassifAustralia· 2026-07-27Dr Peggy Dwyer SC provided expert psychiatric evidence about Cauchi's mental state during the inquest.
Everyone agreed Joel Cauchi was psychotic when he murdered six people at Bondi Junction. Until his psychiatrist didn’t | Bondi Junction stabbings
United Kingdom· 2025-05-17
Counsel assisting the inquiry Peggy Dwyer highlighted Cauchi's long history of mental illness.
Why we must not look away from this moment of horrorAustralia· 2025-05-04
