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00:00 At what point did you inform the Chief Minister and your partners in government that this was a situation that required investigating?
00:07 And what was his or the Deputy Chief Minister's response?
00:10 The Chief Minister was still in Canberra just at the time. He's on a period of leave at the moment, as I think people are aware.
00:16 We first contacted the Chief Minister's office at around about 7am, 7 to 7.30am on Friday.
00:22 I texted the Chief Minister shortly after that. I managed to speak to him before he left the country.
00:28 What do you make of the Deputy Chief Minister and the Opposition Leader, Elizabeth Lee's calls for further investigation and question marks they've raised around you and your party's conduct around this?
00:38 Well, frankly, I am dismayed by the Deputy Chief Minister's statement last night. I think it was highly inappropriate.
00:45 I spoke to the Deputy Chief Minister twice yesterday. So for her to then issue a statement last night, saying she had questions that had not been answered,
00:56 she had ample opportunity to raise those matters with me yesterday.
01:00 Similarly, her statement says Labor caucus members have questions.
01:07 Every single member of Labor caucus has my telephone number and my email address.
01:12 Not one of them contacted me across the course of the weekend or Friday to ask a single question.
01:19 I saw Minister Gentleman at a public event yesterday. He did not ask me a question.
01:24 I think one needs to look at the Labor Party's statement last night and question the Labor Party's integrity on this matter.
01:30 For them to try and create a political advantage out of the most difficult and most sensitive issue my party has ever faced reflects very poorly on them.
01:43 Of course, it's not covered on you though, as the party investigating the matter, to provide more information to your coalition partners.
01:49 We rang the Labor Party on Friday morning and told them what was going on.
01:55 But no, they do not run my party. I do not have to answer to the Labor Party.
02:01 I should share information with them. I shared information with them.
02:06 I didn't know they had further questions because they said, "Thank you for letting us know," and we had not heard from them since.