A senior staffer of the former New South Wales (NSW) premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has told a corruption inquiry that while the state leader should have declared her relationship with Daryl Maguire as a conflict of interest, she always behaved by the rules in a “principled fashion.” The NSW anti-corruption watchdog is investigating whether Berejiklian breached public interest or turned a blind eye to the corruption of her former secret partner, Maguire. Neil Harley, Berejiklian’s chief of staff from February 2020, told the inquiry that the former premier never treated Maguire or his electorate, Wagga Wagga, favourably. “Never. … I cannot recall a single occasion when Ms Berejiklian raised with me either Mr Maguire or the Wagga Wagga electorate. Not a single occasion,” Harley told the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). Harley said that had he and others known about the relationship between Berejiklian and Maguire, appropriate advice would have been …