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Speaker 1: In the end, I think Andrew Coster had to go. Look,

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Speaker 1: you realize he's won a big victory today, don't you.

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Speaker 1: Cause it's a big admission from the Public Service Commissioner

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Speaker 1: today that Andrew Costa didn't do anything wrong himself. He

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Speaker 1: hadn't committed any personal wrongdoing. And it's a big admission

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Speaker 1: also that there was no cover up. And the reason

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Speaker 1: that it's a big admission is because of the number

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Speaker 1: of times lots of ministers and also the Police Commissioner

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Speaker 1: went out there in media and said cover up, cover up,

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Speaker 1: cover up, and then also in some cases said corruption. Now,

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Speaker 1: what I think this proves is exactly what I had

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Speaker 1: intimated a few weeks ago. Yes, this was a scandal,

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Speaker 1: but it was not the a plus plus plus plus

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Speaker 1: plus plus scandal that these guys were kind of raking

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Speaker 1: it up to be. That was politics. They wanted to

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Speaker 1: play the game of the bad guys are out where

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Speaker 1: the new guys. It's a new broom, that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: I didn't rate Andrew Coster as a police commissioner. I

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Speaker 1: think he was rubbish at that job. But I always

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Speaker 1: thought that he would be good at running the Social

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Speaker 1: Investment Agency because he's the kind of guy that likes

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Speaker 1: the warm fuzzies and the early intervention, which is what

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Speaker 1: the Social Investment Agency. It was never about hard policing.

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Speaker 1: He was about warm fuzzies. The Social Investment Agency is

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Speaker 1: about warm fuzzies. So it is in a way a

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Speaker 1: pity that the warm fuzzies guy cannot lead the warm

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Speaker 1: fuzzies agency anymore. But ultimately, like Brian Roach said, he

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Speaker 1: had to go because even though he did nothing wrong,

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Speaker 1: the buck stopped with him at the police and he

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Speaker 1: made a series of bad calls that meant none of

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Speaker 1: us could ever fully trust his judgment again, and he

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Speaker 1: was going to be a political target. Who wants to

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Speaker 1: be the minister or the government that protects the guy

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Speaker 1: that protected Gevin mcskimming, even if he's the guy who

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Speaker 1: didn't know that he was protecting the bad guy. And

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Speaker 1: ultimately we've probably got away lightly. I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: have to pay him one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: but that was the low end of things. That was

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Speaker 1: his notice period as probably the very least you could

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Speaker 1: pay him. But count today as a small victory for

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Speaker 1: Andrew Costa because he's cleared his reputation, even if he's

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Speaker 1: lost his job. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,

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