Former NSW Labor minister Eddie Obeid's criminal trial begins

By Michaela Whitbourn
Updated February 10 2016 - 3:08pm, first published 3:05pm
Former Labor minister Eddie Obeid (right) arrives at The Supreme Court in Darlinghurst on Wednesday.  Photo: Kate Geraghty
Former Labor minister Eddie Obeid (right) arrives at The Supreme Court in Darlinghurst on Wednesday. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Former NSW Labor minister Eddie Obeid was secretly "acting in the private interests of his family" when lobbying a government authority on behalf of a group of Circular Quay tenants, the Supreme Court has heard.