At a media conference in Perth, the Australian attorney general identifies himself as the subject of the allegation, but says it ‘simply did not happen’
So, I just wanted to start by saying something to the parents who are grieving for the loss of their adult daughter. I only knew your daughter for the briefest periods, at debating competitions, when we were teenagers, about 33 years ago. I was 17 years old and I think that she was 16 years old. And, in losing that person, your daughter, you have suffered a terrible loss, and you did not deserve the frenzied politicisation of the circumstances of your daughter’s death of the past week, and I have thought long and hard about the implications for you of what I feel that I need to say today.
And I hope that whatever else happens, from this point, that you will understand, that in saying today, that the things that are being claimed to have happened did not happen, that I did not mean to impose anything more upon your grief. But I hope that you will also understand, that because what is being alleged did not happen, I must say so publicly.
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