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Katie Woolf spoke about MLA Mark Turners speech in Parliament last night · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: If you want to know what's happening on the local
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  Speaker 1: political landscape, Katie Wolf has it covered on three sixty
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  Speaker 1: Every one is listening Mix one oh four point nine.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to read a few of the messages
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  Speaker 1: out that we've received so far this morning. There's one here,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Turner, What a joke of a speech, trying to
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  Speaker 1: blame the opposition leader for forcing him to come out
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  Speaker 1: about the affair.
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  Speaker 2: No, mate, you're on.
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  Speaker 1: You're an adult and choose to have that relationship. You're
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  Speaker 1: a public figure and have standards you need to adhere to.
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  Speaker 2: Shame.
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  Speaker 1: Shame, shame, says that Texter. Another one here, Michael Gunna
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  Speaker 1: must resign immediately. He lied to us consequently, he is
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  Speaker 1: unfit to lead Territorians. I've got one here, Hi kd
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  Speaker 1: call for the whole of the fifth floor to be
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  Speaker 1: drug tested. Miners get tested, oil and gas get tested.
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  Speaker 2: NT Police.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if the NT police do, but it
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  Speaker 1: says all in the name of safety.
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  Speaker 2: If you're pulled over.
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  Speaker 1: In a car and there's any doubt, you're tested, all
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  Speaker 1: in the name of keeping us safe.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I think that we need to
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: Another one here, absolutely Katie Gunner thinks that he can
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  Speaker 1: act like Donald Trump, trying to turn this labor scandal
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  Speaker 1: into the opposite, onto the opposition.
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  Speaker 2: Another one here from Allan.
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  Speaker 1: It says Hi Katie Labour's spin at its best was
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  Speaker 1: on show when MLA Turner made his speech, when he's
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  Speaker 1: several times blamed the opposition leader for raising the issue.
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  Speaker 2: Not true.
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  Speaker 1: The NT News did that, and the Chief Minister could
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  Speaker 1: have accepted the allegation and host it down if it
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  Speaker 1: had the balls to comment days ago. Yes, it's principally
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  Speaker 1: a private matter, and Gunner stands commended for.
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  Speaker 2: His lack of acceptance.
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  Speaker 1: I feel for mister Turner's family, but as a politician
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  Speaker 1: there's certain rules of behavior and public scrutiny that applies.
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  Speaker 2: Gunner should resign as he's let the.
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  Speaker 1: Public down on so many fronts, not only this matter,
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  Speaker 1: says Alan. Now, they're just a few of the messages
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  Speaker 1: that we're receiving so far this morning. Now, for the
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  Speaker 1: sake of fairness, I do want to play this. I
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  Speaker 1: do want to play this audio for you. It is
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  Speaker 1: Mark Turner's speech from Parliament House overnight.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen you.
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  Speaker 3: Madam Speaker. I rise tonight to make a personal explanation
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  Speaker 3: about untrue rumors circulating online which concerned me. It was
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  Speaker 3: not my intention to respond to untrue rumors and innuendo.
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  Speaker 3: There are untrue things said about every one of us
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  Speaker 3: every day. It is my view that online rumors should
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  Speaker 3: stay in the dark corners of the Internet and not
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  Speaker 3: dredged up in the Parliament for theater.
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  Speaker 2: To do.
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  Speaker 3: Otherwise, it's a very dangerous precedent for all of us.
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  Speaker 3: I have been speaking to the Chief Minister this week,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm grateful to him and my caucus colleagues for
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  Speaker 3: their support, for their view that untrue rumors should not
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  Speaker 3: be given public credibility, and for the desire to protect
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  Speaker 3: my family from public embarrassment. But the actions of the
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  Speaker 3: Leader of the Opposition in recent days, the new media
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  Speaker 3: reports tonight, have left me with no other choice. The
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  Speaker 3: Leader of the Opposition has used her privileged position in
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  Speaker 3: this place to take these untrue rumors about me and
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  Speaker 3: use them to impugn the character of my colleagues. I
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  Speaker 3: will not allow that to continue any longer. I have
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  Speaker 3: the Chief Minister's support in making this statement regarding the
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  Speaker 3: private citizen at the center of these rumors whose personal
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  Speaker 3: information was allegedly stolen. Any suggestion that I participated in
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  Speaker 3: an illegal activity is categorically false. Regarding the allegedly stolen messages,
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  Speaker 3: I can confirm that this person and I have had
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  Speaker 3: a friendship in the past. I do not recall the
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  Speaker 3: details of every conversation. During this friendship. We exchange general conversation,
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  Speaker 3: banter jokes, and some intimate conversation. I do not condone
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  Speaker 3: illegal activity and I do not participate in it. I
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  Speaker 3: accept that there were aspects of our friendship in the
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  Speaker 3: past that were not appropriate because they were too intimate.
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  Speaker 3: It was not illegal, it was consensual. It was respectful,
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  Speaker 3: but not appropriate, and this is something that I need
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  Speaker 3: to deal with and am dealing with privately with my family.
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  Speaker 3: I am not a perfect person. Nobody is, nobody in
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  Speaker 3: the Parliament is. I've made mistakes in the past in
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  Speaker 3: my personal life. But the rumors and the allegations that
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  Speaker 3: the leader of the Opposition is peddling are just plain wrong.
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  Speaker 3: They just are not true. I am deeply embarrassed by
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  Speaker 3: all of this, and if that was the leader of
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  Speaker 3: the Opposition's goal, she has succeeded. My family's private hurt
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  Speaker 3: is now public, and if that was the leader of
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  Speaker 3: the opposition's goal, she has succeeded. A private citizen whose
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  Speaker 3: personal information was allegedly stolen has been left traumatized. If
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  Speaker 3: that was the leader of the opposition's goal, she has succeeded.
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  Speaker 3: Leader of the opposition. I can only hope that this
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  Speaker 3: has been worth it for you. In my public life,
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  Speaker 3: I answer to the good people of the Blain electorate.
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  Speaker 3: I apologize to them for the distraction is caused, and
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  Speaker 3: I will work every day to keep earning their trust
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  Speaker 3: in my personal life and for any personal failings. I
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  Speaker 3: answer to my family. I unreservedly apologize to them for
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  Speaker 3: the hurt and distress this is caused. I'm very fortunate
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  Speaker 3: that I have their continued support, and I will work
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  Speaker 3: every day to repair and strengthen that relationship.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so we will leave. That obviously gives you
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  Speaker 1: the member's speech. There's only about eight seconds to go,
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  Speaker 1: and look, I think you can make of that what
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  Speaker 1: you like. You. Obviously, we as Territorians vote for who
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  Speaker 1: we think is most appropriate in these roles to represent us. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he said it himself. It's obviously up to the people
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  Speaker 1: of Blaine. How they feel about this situation. If you
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  Speaker 1: live in Blaine eight nine four one one oh four nine,
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  Speaker 1: give us a call or you can send us a
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  Speaker 1: text zero four one eight nine five seven three six nine. Now,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we've got two issues here. We've got the situation
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  Speaker 1: where the member for blame has come out he's made
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  Speaker 1: that speech yesterday now to me to blame the opposition leader,
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  Speaker 1: I think is for his own actions. He's gutless. However,
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  Speaker 1: let's put that to the side for a moment. Let's
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  Speaker 1: put to the side that moral debate about whether it
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  Speaker 1: is or is an appropriate behavior. And let's also talk
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  Speaker 1: about the second issue, the one which we asked yesterday
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  Speaker 1: of the woman at the center of the scandal, and
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  Speaker 1: that was whether staff in the Chief Minister's on the
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  Speaker 1: Chief Minister's floor of Parliament House, on the fifth floor
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  Speaker 1: of Parliament House, had been engaged in any use of
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  Speaker 1: illicit drugs and she had said that she wasn't in
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  Speaker 1: a situation where she could answer that question.
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  Speaker 2: Amongst other things.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, if we have got
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  Speaker 1: a situation where people on the fifth floor of Parliament,
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  Speaker 1: those that are in positions where they are helping to
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  Speaker 1: advise the Chief Minister or helping to come up with
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  Speaker 1: policy for the government and for for the Northern Territory,
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  Speaker 1: are engaged in any type of illicit behavior on the
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  Speaker 1: weekends or at any point in time. To me, it
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  Speaker 1: is inappropriate and it is not professional. And as we've
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  Speaker 1: heard from the Chief Minister in the past, the government
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  Speaker 1: has to set the standard. Now, I want to read
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  Speaker 1: for you something that he put out when we had
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  Speaker 1: a similar situation or a situation obviously involving the COLP
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  Speaker 1: when they were in power. Now, many of you who've
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  Speaker 1: been around for quite some time will recall this time
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  Speaker 1: when it happened and the video that went around. Now
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  Speaker 1: at the time, the Chief Minister said the CLP's member
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  Speaker 1: for Blaine has fundamentally breached community standards. His behavior is
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  Speaker 1: also an unforgivable breach of parliamentary standards. He should resign
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  Speaker 1: immediately and not take his seat in Parliament. There was
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  Speaker 1: only one right decision for Adam Giles and the CLP.
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  Speaker 1: The Member for Blaine had to be stripped of CLP membership.
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  Speaker 1: Adam Giles is leading the worst government in Australian history.
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  Speaker 1: They are scandal plagued, incompetent and causing incalculable damage to
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  Speaker 1: the Northern territory. He went on to say, to keep
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  Speaker 1: this person in Parliament and use his vote until the
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  Speaker 1: next election is weak by Adam Giles. If Adam Giles
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  Speaker 1: keeps this person as a member of his own party
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  Speaker 1: and accepts his tainted vote, he's condoning his behavior. Now
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  Speaker 1: I've got to say, Chief Minister, you should take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to your own words.