Bit of a chunky wall of text for you here, as the Premier's press conference got dominated at one point by one Peta Credlin.
Credlin asks how Unified Security got its three-month contract when they weren't on the vetted list of companies from the Government.
The Premier interrupts and quibbles with framing that a reference to private security from him was him announcing it. Credlin quotes from the statement on March 27 highlighting the security aspect.
"Excuse me I'll finish," she says when he interrupts her from reading it to him.
"I have no doubt you will finish. I have no doubt at all," he says.
The Premier says he'll stand there as long as he needs to and answer questions, but the comments being put to him are "absolutely incorrect" to pretend the program had been laid down.
Credlin has not yet got a chance to actually ask her question about Unified Security's contract. There's more back-and-forth on the ADF's offers of support, with Credlin quoting from a statement that Mr Andrews said it had been "agreed" that ADF would help.
There are more interruptions from Mr Andrews and Credlin, with Mr Andrews saying Credlin's take on statements are not accurate.
He says it's not for her "with the greatest of respect" to tell him as someone not in the National Cabinet meeting what happened.
She replied she understands the ADF stand up order, she worked for a defence minister.
"Well fine, and I'm very pleased for you," he says, before accusing her of putting things to him he has already rebutted and refuted.
"There was a well-understood position that New South Wales could reasonably expect to have significant ADF support" he said.
"They were in the midst of the Ruby Princess..." - he is then interrupted by Credlin to ask where that was understood - he goes on to say he's not going to go into what was discussed in the National Cabinet.
He says as he's not the chair of National Cabinet, he won't break confidentiality on how that March 27 meeting unfolded.
"I would simply point to the fact that I was in the room and with the greatest of respect you were not in the room."
Credlin then follows up, saying Ruby Princess was a matter for Border Force, not ADF
With a sigh, Mr Andrews responds: "There was a lot going on in Sydney at the time and therefore for a new program, and additional program, there would be perhaps less resources to be able to deal with that."
He says any suggestion there was reticence on the part of Victoria in seeking ADF help when needed is "simply wrong".
Credlin asks: So how did everyone else leave that meeting with different understandings and different take-up?
Mr Andrews accuses Credlin of reading a statement again and again in the hope of making it true.
"You are in no position to make judgements about what everyone else at National Cabinet thought and took away from that room," he said.
"We can do this every day, that's fine by me. But what I will not have ... is a situation where statements are made in this room or any room, they're put to me, they're factually incorrect and I simply allow that to go through."
He calls for any questions on matters not due to things months ago.
"Might there be any questions today about things that Victorians are immediately concerned about right now, because they're not the subject of a process?"
That was a wall of text. So here's an elephant taking a bath.
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