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Queensland's Premier has revealed he learnt his Olympics Minister had been referred to Federal Police only via the media. David Crisafulli says the embattled Tim Mander has made the right decision in stepping down from cabinet, in the first major casualty of the LNP government.

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00:01A Premier under fire, distancing himself after being blindsided by his Minister.
00:08He has stood aside, he's made the right call.
00:11The Krissafulli LNP government's integrity crisis continues to get murkier by the day.
00:15David Krissafulli welcoming former Minister Tim Mander's decision to step down from Cabinet.
00:21The member for Everton's decision on Thursday, coming after the electoral watchdog referred him to Federal Police
00:28over his voting enrolment status.
00:31It claimed there was an absence of evidence Tim Mander lived at the address he was enrolled at.
00:37He's assured me that he's been truthful and now it's up to the AFP to investigate that.
00:43And I think that's a fair and reasonable process.
00:45But the Premier says he didn't know about the referral at an event early on Thursday.
00:51Yesterday I was sharing a sausage with you and a horse in the morning.
00:55Finding out through the media.
00:56There were issues with getting the information and the story broke publicly whilst he was on a plane coming back.
01:04Tim Mander was in New Zealand, he wasn't at the South Pole.
01:07Mr Mander was made aware of the referral on Wednesday.
01:11The Premier expects Queenslanders to believe that Tim Mander couldn't be bothered ringing him
01:15when he'd been referred to the Australian Federal Police.
01:18Seriously? I mean seriously.
01:21Mr Mander will sit on the back bench for now, assuring he's done nothing wrong and the matter will be
01:28resolved.
01:29It's unclear how long Environment and Tourism Minister Andrew Powell will be saddled with the racing, sport and Olympic and
01:37Paralympic Games portfolios.
01:39How long is this going to go on for and how long are we going to have an acting minister
01:42when the games need to be delivered?
01:46Front benches refusing to weigh in on the integrity saga.
01:50The Premier has made a comment about this.
01:52I'll refer you to his comments.
01:54I've got literally nothing else to add to that.
01:57No, no, no.
01:59So, we have a handful of parents.
01:59Now we are they're going to encourage people to 12 minutes.
02:00The B gioco goes out for 3 seconds.
02:00You can ask them as questions.
02:01You can ask them if they are willing to buy,
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