Parramatta Council CEO Angela Jones-Blayney is giving evidence at a New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) hearing, where prosecutors and witnesses examine her involvement in hiring decisions involving a friend. Multiple reports say Jones-Blayney spent a second day in the witness box and addressed questions about communications around an interview process. She is reported to have deleted texts that allegedly contained interview questions, and her evidence focuses on why the messages were removed. The articles also describe ICAC claims that Jones-Blayney helped edit a friend’s resume before the friend was hired. In their accounts, the outlets describe the hearing as involving scrutiny of potential conflicts of interest, including whether the CEO’s support affected the integrity of a recruitment process and whether any communications were concealed through deletion. The reports agree on the central elements of the testimony covered on the second day: the role in editing the resume, the subsequent hiring, and the explanation for deleting texts that allegedly included interview questions. The coverage frames these matters as part of ICAC’s investigation and fact-finding in relation to conduct being examined by the commission.