John Faulkner (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Ferguson for the supplementary question. Mr President, with the agreement of the Northern Territory Police, who consulted with the coroner, 24 still images of the incident were released. The Northern Territory Police told Defence in April that any images clearly depicting people yet to be formally identified, or unidentified objects in the water immediately following the explosion, were not approved for release given the police investigation.

This week, however, on my instruction, the Chief of the Defence Force contacted the NT coroner to seek his advice on a time frame for when additional material may be released without compromising the coroner’s processes. In response, the coroner— (Time expired)