00:00The Premier was gazing into the future today, unveiling designs for the new look Fairfield Hospital.
00:07But he also had one eye on the past.
00:12I absolutely reject any suggestion of wrongdoing comprehensively. I don't want there to be any ambiguity about that.
00:18Donations to Chris Minns' 2015 campaign are being examined by a parliamentary committee,
00:23and yesterday its chair made this statement to Parliament.
00:26Members of Parliament have an obligation to report any credible knowledge of a crime.
00:30The Public Accountability and Works Committee has referred material it has received
00:34to the NSW Electoral Commission, the DPP and the ICAC.
00:38ABC Investigations has learnt former Labor staffer David Latham provided an affidavit to the committee,
00:44alleging Chris Minns asked him how to get money without receipts into his campaign fund.
00:50When David Latham offered to ask a colleague,
00:52Mr Minns allegedly said he'd talked to then ALP General Secretary Jamie Clements instead.
00:58The ABC doesn't suggest the claims are true, only that they've been made.
01:02The person making this or bringing this so-called new charge or new allegation
01:07had made the same disclosure to the ICAC six years ago.
01:11In public hearings in 2019, Jamie Clements denied a separate allegation
01:15that he took cash in an Aldi bag to get around donation laws.
01:19No adverse findings were made against him.
01:21He denies any wrongdoing handling Chris Minns' donations as well.
01:25The Premier's taken aim at the Parliamentary Committee investigating the donations.
01:29He says it's been cherry picking the information it releases to damage him politically.
01:34Release it all. Get it all out today.
01:37Put it into the public domain and let the public make up their mind.
01:40The committee chair says she's not authorised to make any further comment.
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