On page 2 of today’s Australian newspaper, an article by New South Wales political reporter Imre Salusinszky contains comments sourced from a letter written by New South Wales MLC the Hon. Duncan Gay which allege that I had approached him in his previous capacity as National Party chairman to join the National Party. A simple check of my public comments about the National Party over two decades of political life quite clearly shows the allegation for what it is: arrant nonsense, simply untrue and a desperate, deliberate attempt by Mr Gay to mislead the community.