Statement Fails To Address Key Claims

THE Education Minister, John Della Bosca, has failed to address claims he abused and threatened nightclub staff or that his wife, federal MP Belinda Neal, threatened the liquor licence of a Gosford nightclub in a written statement he provided to the Premier yesterday.

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PREMIER Morris Iemma has accepted a statement from Education Minister John Della Bosca, pictured, over an alleged altercation at a Gosford nightclub involving him and his wife, federal MP Belinda Neal, although the statement fails to address allegations against them.