The parliamentary inquiry investigating an alleged handshake between NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard and a colleague has taken the extraordinary step of delaying its report to reconsider its findings
Hazzard was ultimately not deemed a close contact despite claims he shook Marshall’s hand, which the health minister has denied, so was not required to isolate.
Marshall provided a statement to the committee last month that said the pair and two others were in “conversation at close quarters for several minutes before the minister moved on to another part of the room”. “The suppression of evidence is a very serious matter when this inquiry has cost NSW taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars but more importantly when committees conducting such inquiries are established by law with powers set out in the relevant act of parliament,” Hazzard said in the letter seen by the“I have been advised that the committee secretariat drafted a very different and balanced report that reflected the evidence received, which directly contradicted the findings that you appear...
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