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Speaker 1: Look, I don't enjoy saying what I'm about to say

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Speaker 1: because personally I quite like Neil Quigley. But I think

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Speaker 1: that he needs to quit as the chairer of the

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Speaker 1: Reserve Bank simply because I do not think that we

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Speaker 1: can ever trust a single word that comes out of

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Speaker 1: that man's mouth. Again, as the chair, he has been

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Speaker 1: busted telling not just one, but quite a lot of

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Speaker 1: fibbs about Adrianall's resignation. So for a start, on the

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Speaker 1: day that Adrian All quit, you'll quit, You'll recall. Neil

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Speaker 1: Quigley was the one who held the press conference at

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Speaker 1: the time. He said Adrian's resignation was a personal decision.

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Speaker 1: That is clearly not true. Adrian Wineff now found out

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Speaker 1: find out, packed a sad and quit overfunding. Neil Quigley

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Speaker 1: also said that there was nothing that the government had

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Speaker 1: said in the days before that that caused Adrian or

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Speaker 1: to quit. Not true. Adrian and Nichola and actually Neil

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Speaker 1: himself had a meeting about the funding nine days before

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Speaker 1: the resignation. Neil Quigley was also asked whether there were

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Speaker 1: any policy, conduct or performance issues which are at the

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Speaker 1: center of this resignation. He said there are no issues

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Speaker 1: of that type that are behind this resignation. Once again

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Speaker 1: not true. He was asked what happened because, quote, Reserve

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Speaker 1: Bank governors don't just up and resign, and he said, quote,

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Speaker 1: there is a time when you think, having achieved what

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Speaker 1: you wanted to achieve, that's enough. Once again not true.

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Speaker 1: That's not why Adrian quit. Adrian quick because he packed

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Speaker 1: a tantrum because he didn't get enough money. Now I

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Speaker 1: do not know why Neil quickly decided that he needed

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Speaker 1: to tell porkies in order to defend Adrian Or. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I get the feeling that he has spent a great

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Speaker 1: deal of his time, unfortunately for him, spent a great

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Speaker 1: deal of his time trying to manage the tantrums of

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Speaker 1: our former toddler governor. And perhaps he just got into

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a pattern of butt covering for

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Speaker 1: the guy. He has suggested that he was constrained in

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Speaker 1: what he could say by Or's exit agreement. But in

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Speaker 1: that case, you simply say, look, I can't say much

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Speaker 1: because it's an employment agreement. And I think we all

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Speaker 1: will understand that, because we're all employees or employers, and

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Speaker 1: we're all constrained by the same law, so we get it.

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Speaker 1: But he didn't choose to do that. He chose to

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Speaker 1: stand there and fib to us. And that means that

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Speaker 1: next time he's up answering some tough questions. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if we're going to trust him, are we already?

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for Neil, he's got quite a big black mark

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Speaker 1: against him. He was part of the money printing team

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Speaker 1: with Adrian or that stuffed up the economy, and some

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Speaker 1: already think that that is enough reason to call for

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Speaker 1: him to quit, never mind the fact that he has

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Speaker 1: now been busted telling straight out Porky's in public. So

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Speaker 1: if I was Neil Quigley, and he's got two options,

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Speaker 1: he can hang in there and see how it goes,

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Speaker 1: or he can quit while he's still ahead, and I

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Speaker 1: would do the latter. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,

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