{"id":40287,"date":"2026-08-06T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=40287"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:37:02","slug":"statement-by-nsw-premier-on-sexual-harassment-allegations-should-be-produced-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/statement-by-nsw-premier-on-sexual-harassment-allegations-should-be-produced-to-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by NSW Premier on sexual harassment allegations should be produced to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two sets of independent legal advice have found that a statement made by Chris Minns in relation to historical allegations of sexual harassment in the NSW Parliament have disagreed with the Minns Labor Government\u2019s argument that the statement cannot be provided to the Parliament because it is a Police document.  Georgina Wright SC has recommended<\/a> that the statement by Minns should be produced under the powers of the Legislative Council if it was not formally served on Jamie Clements as part of an apprehended violence order civil case, and Geoffrey Watson SC has recommended<\/a> that the statement should be produced under the existing order for the statement to be produced to the Parliament.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In an answer to a question provided to the Parliament today<\/u><\/a>, the Government has confirmed that \u201cThe limited documentary evidence available does not reveal whether a copy of this brief (statement) was served on Clements\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greens MP and spokesperson for justice Sue Higginson says \u201cThe Leader of the Government has refused to produce this statement made by Minns on multiple occasions, the legal basis for that refusal is now clearly in question by two independent Senior Counsels,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Greens ensured independent legal advice on this issue was requested, in an effort to prevent the Leader of the Government from being repeatedly found in contempt of the Parliament. We now have two separate opinions that do not support the Government\u2019s refusal to produce the Minns statement, as ordered by the Parliament,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen asked directly whether the Minns Statement was served on his friend Jamie Clements, the Minister for Police referred back to the Crown Solicitor\u2019s advice which said \u2018The limited documentary evidence available does not reveal whether a copy of this brief was served on Clements\u2019 legal representatives\u2019. The presumption must be made that this document is a document that must be produced to the Parliament as ordered,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe advice of Geoffrey Watson SC is very clear, this statement should be produced as ordered. It\u2019s time the Minns Labor Government accepts the legal position and complies with the order of the Parliament. This is a document that a brave young woman is calling to be released and it goes directly to the character of the Premier of NSW,\u201d Ms Higginson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two sets of independent legal advice have found that a statement made by Chris Minns in relation to historical allegations of sexual harassment in the NSW Parliament have disagreed with the Minns Labor Government\u2019s argument that the statement cannot be provided to the Parliament because it is a Police document.  Georgina Wright SC has recommended that the … Continue reading “Statement by NSW Premier on sexual harassment allegations should be produced to Parliament”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40288,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287\/revisions\/40288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}