Premier Daniel Andrews declined to give evidence, but the committee heard he wrote to witnesses to warn them against disclosing information viewed as confidential.
A Senate committee has accused the Victorian government of actively hindering its inquiry into the state’s ill-fated 2026 Commonwealth Games bid.
Earlier on Thursday, Andrews would not commit to reading the interim report, describing it as a political stunt led by Nationals senators.“I think we all know in advance what that’s about, it’s a political stunt. It’s a political stunt,” he said on Thursday morning. “We’re still trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. I probably won’t have time this evening to go through all of the barriers we faced as a committee,” Canavan said in parliament on Thursday afternoon.
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