Gladys Berejiklian Icac hearing live updates: former premier says telling Daryl Maguire he was family was ‘a turn of phrase’
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Did you regard him as part of the family?
Gladys Berejiklian:
I never regarded him as family in terms of the ministerial code; we didn't share any finances.
Not in a legal sense, no.
But you are my family.
I had those feelings but I was never assured of a level of commitment which in my mind would have required me to introduce him to my parents, or introduce him to my sisters, or regard it as sufficiently significant.
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