Loading First established in 2005, the hotline allows MPs and their staff to call Revenue NSW to advocate on behalf of their constituents, including asking for speeding fines to be waived or delayed. Revenue NSW has the final say on whether those fines are applied or not. The Sydney Morning Herald can also reveal that the phone service was used hundreds of times by both Labor and Coalition MPs in 2017 including for high range speeding offences. Labor MP Nick Lalich, in the electorate of Cabramatta, was the most prolific user of the hotline, according to records, calling and writing to the government around 175 times in 2017.

His colleague, Liverpool MP Paul Lynch made 51 representations. The two Coalition MPs who most advocated on behalf of their voters were Drummoyne MP John Sidoti, the parliamentary secretary to Cabinet, and retiring East Hills MP Glenn Brookes. Mr Brookes made 33 representations in 2017, while Mr Sidoti had made 31. On one occasion, Mr Lalich advocated on behalf of a driver who was caught driving 116km/h in a 90km/h zone on the Pacific Highway near Bar Point in December 2017. "Driving 20km/h over the speed limit is classified as a serious offence and raises public safety concerns ... as such, Revenue NSW is generally unable to consider leniency when reviewing this type of offence," Alister Henskens, the parliamentary secretary for finance, wrote to Mr Lalich last year.

Loading On another occasion, Mr Lalich advocated for another constituent who was detected driving 101km/h in an 80km/h work zone on the Hume Highway in Mount Annan on February 2 that year. Mr Lalich said he made "no apologies for using this service to represent constituents who request assistance". Mr Lynch said, while he had made representations on behalf of his community, "the merits of any representation are decided by the appropriate bureaucratic body". Mr Sidoti said "half hour parking in a town centre is unreasonable" and "for better of worse, if someone comes in with a problem, I advocate on their behalf". "Often they are elderly and I wouldn't advocate on behalf of someone who is speeding," he said.

Two weeks before Mrs Daley's $114 fine was paid, her husband was caught driving 78km/h on the Eastern Distributor after 11pm, when the speed limit was 40km/h. At the time, Mr Daley was deputy Labor leader. In a subsequent interview with 2GB, Mr Daley was questioned about his driving record - having earlier suggested he was "a careful driver and haven't lost a point off my licence in over 34 years - and admitted to the August 8 offence, but did not mention any incident in May". Mr Daley also disclosed he had been fined for three separate speeding offences between 1988 and 1999. Mr Daley's leadership predecessor, Luke Foley, admitted to two past drink-driving convictions shortly after he assumed the party's leadership in early 2015.