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Phillip Ruddock, president of the NSW Liberal party, has been asked on ABC radio just now if he thinks Gladys Berejiklian should have simply stepped down as premier but remained in state parliament.
It’s a matter of judgement. I think she looked at it in the context of how long it was likely to impact, and the approach that Icac takes in relation to its inquiries. I mean that could be very many months before her reputation would have been cleared.
It’s one of the reasons that I’ve commented on the way in which Icac undertakes inquiries... I believe passionately that we need to deal with corruption. I don’t see any place for corruption in public life, but having said that, I don’t believe people’s reputations should be jeopardised because matters are put into the public arena before issues relating to culpability have been clearly established.
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