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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Michael Parris

Crakanthorp tells Parliament he 'unfortunately' omitted wife's property from disclosure

Crakanthorp speech

Tim Crakanthorp has told Parliament he "unfortunately omitted" a property owned by his wife, Laura, from his initial ministerial disclosure and became aware of a conflict of interest involving his in-laws' Broadmeadow properties some time after lodging that first disclosure.

The embattled Newcastle MP addressed the lower house late on Wednesday night, hours after Premier Chris Minns had forced him to resign from cabinet for failing to "promptly" disclose the extent of his family's "substantial" property holdings in the Hunter.

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