Crakanthorp speech

Tim Crakanthorp speaks in Parliament on August 2 after being dumped from the NSW ministry.

Transcript

00:00 In recent days I have made a subsequent disclosure to the Premier's Office to self-report an

00:06 omission on my ministerial disclosures as required by the Code of Conduct.

00:11 Under my initial disclosure I included a property owned by my wife and another property owned

00:16 by my wife with her siblings.

00:19 A further property owned by my wife was unfortunately omitted in that disclosure.

00:23 I believe that disclosure was the first required after my appointment as a minister in the

00:29 Minns Labor Government.

00:31 At the time I also disclosed that my father-in-law owned property at Broadmeadow, but undertook

00:36 that I would notify under the Code of Conduct any changes to any perceived conflict.

00:44 Subsequently I provided another return that included the omitted property owned by my

00:49 wife.

00:50 I also provided a subsequent updated disclosure under the Ministerial Code of Conduct that

00:57 again identified the subject property owned by my wife at Broadmeadow.

01:03 I also took steps to subsequently notify the Premier that I now had become aware of the

01:08 properties owned within Broadmeadow by my in-laws, also now represented a conflict of

01:16 interest.

01:18 In recent days I again notified the Premier's Office that I had now spoken to both my in-laws

01:23 and my siblings-in-laws to assemble a full list of each of their interests, and I have

01:29 provided those to the Premier's Office.

01:32 I appreciate and firmly believe that ministers must be held to the highest standards, and

01:38 would like to note that this oversight was identified due to my own self-reporting.

01:45 I thank the House for its consideration.