NSW building commissioner’s resignation letter sent to Icac, Dominic Perrottet says

Letter has been the subject of intense speculation, amid reports it refers to a stop-work order

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The resignation letter sent by former New South Wales building commissioner David Chandler when he abruptly quit last month has been sent to the state's anti-corruption watchdog.

On Wednesday the NSW premier, Dominic Perrottet, revealed the letter, which he had previously said he had not read, had been forwarded to the Independent Commission Against Corruption out of an abundance of caution".

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