VICTORIAN Planning Minister Justin Madden is “expected to face a grilling” at this month’s parliamentary inquiry into corruption in the planning system.

The Labor Party is in damage control, and its credibility under serious question, after a senior media adviser sent an email which proposed using a public consultation, as grounds to knock back plans for a 25-level tower behind the Windsor Hotel, the fate of which may have already been decided.

The final decision about the project rests with Justin Madden, and the email was meant for him.

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