Alan Griffin (Bruce, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We have a situation in which there are two versions flying around, and I think it is in the public interest to try to ascertain exactly what did occur. If there was confusion that might have led to the situation developing as it has then we ought to try to get to the bottom of it. On that point, though, are you saying quite definitively that you have checked and confirmed with your chief of staff that no direction was given and that no discussion occurred around the need to not say any more until the position was clearly understood from the commissioner’s point of view or anything like that?

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