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instructive to compare what Mr Hanson is asking for, what the Chief Minister has just been able to provide and what the Chief Police Officer said in that interview. It goes to how much information can be provided. Mr Hanson in his motion has called for answers to questions like, “What police information was leaked, how and to whom?” “How did the ministerial staffers receive the police information?” “What happened to the information, how was it used and by whom?” “When was it leaked?”
The Chief Police Officer answered those questions to some extent in his press conference. Did he go far enough for Mr Hanson? He will reveal that in a moment, I imagine. I will not read out the transcript of the whole press conference; it is a six-page transcript. Now that it has been tabled, members are free to access it as they wish. It was a press conference that journalists went to; it was a public event. I will simply quote from it. The Chief Police Officer talked about the fact that the investigation was now closed. He gave a brief statement and then journalists started to ask questions. The question to the Chief Police Officer was:
What were the suggestions or the allegations against the two staffers or what are the concerns about what they did. What did they do?
The Chief Police Officer answered:
The concerns as were determined by the evaluation was that confidential police operational information was passed to people who had no need to know that information.
The next question was:
What was the nature of that information?
The answer was:
The nature of the information was operationally sensitive police information and the information relates to ongoing investigations, so it is inappropriate for me to comment further about the specifics of the information that was passed.
The next question, from Kirsten Lawson from the Canberra Times, was:
Did it go to union activities or issues of right of entry without being specific, did it go to specific union activities or was it beyond that?
The Chief Police Officer replied:
Some of the information that was evaluated was passed in the first instance to the CFMEU. Other sensitive police operational information was passed to other people who had no need to know that information.
The next question was:
On subjects not related to the CFMEU or unions or anything else?
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