Lawyers for Colleen Gwynne say the comments were made during a meeting she was called to attend with the Department of Chief Minister chief executive in December 2019.
A letter sent to Chief Minister Natasha Fyles by Ms Gwynne’s lawyer Sean Bowden details a meeting Ms Gwynne was called to attend with Department of Chief Minister chief executive Jody Ryan on December 10, 2019.
Ms Gwynne was charged by police on July 16, 2020, over allegations she had sought to appoint her friend Laura Dewson as assistant children’s commissioner. Within eight days Ms Hucks’ complaint was sent from the OCPE to the Public Interest Disclosure Commissioner and on to police, who began an investigation.
Last month a jury was ordered to find Ms Gwynne not guilty after Justice John Burns ruled the Crown could not prove Ms Gwynne’s conduct was criminal, rather than poor practice. She was scathing of the NT Government’s child protection services in a report into the rape of a two-year-old Aboriginal girl in Tennant Creek in 2018.
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