00:00 All prompted after it emerged the opposition's shadow Domestic Violence Minister employed
00:07 a man in his office who has been found guilty of numerous domestic violence related charges.
00:12 Steve Edgington says Darius Plummer had told him of two offences before being hired.
00:18 He accepted responsibility for those and served his time prior to being employed in my office.
00:24 The staff are now suspended with pay as a criminal history check is conducted into scores
00:29 of other domestic violence related offences he allegedly didn't disclose.
00:34 Now that this further issue is raised yesterday through the media those matters are currently
00:39 under investigation.
00:41 And with the NT having the worst domestic violence rates in the country advocates say
00:45 more needs to be done.
00:47 I think it shows that we still have parliamentarians in the Northern Territory and in this country
00:51 who aren't taking domestic, family and sexual violence seriously and this is something that
00:56 they should know better.
00:57 But Leah Finocchiaro is standing by her embattled shadow minister.
01:01 The member for Barclay has been explicitly clear that had he had the information he had
01:06 today he would never have hired Mr Plummer in the first place.
01:10 Nearly every question asked in parliament this afternoon by Labor was on the issue of
01:14 domestic violence allowing its ministers to go on the attack against the CLP.
01:19 It's a sign of a potentially ugly election campaign just around the corner.
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