Tim Crakanthorp has told Parliament he "unfortunately omitted" a property owned by his wife, Laura, from his initial ministerial disclosure and became aware of a conflict of interest involving his in-laws' Broadmeadow properties some time after lodging that first disclosure.
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The embattled Newcastle MP addressed the lower house late on Wednesday night, hours after Premier Chris Minns had forced him to resign from cabinet for failing to "promptly" disclose the extent of his family's "substantial" property holdings in the Hunter.
Mr Minns said at an afternoon media conference that he had lost faith in Mr Crakanthorp's ability to serve in his cabinet and had referred the matter to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
The Premier described the breach of the ministerial code of conduct as "clear" and "unacceptable".
Mr Crakanthorp, the Minister for the Hunter, told ACM's Newcastle Herald late Wednesday afternoon that he had self-reported the "unintended breach" to Mr Minns.
![Tim Crakanthorp addressing Parliament on Wednesday night. Tim Crakanthorp addressing Parliament on Wednesday night.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/TFWurqJd3WWgt5tunziPf4/04b9b683-3bb5-426f-8861-6e18d88a682c.png/r302_80_1056_484_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Later in Parliament, he went further, providing details of the property he omitted from his ministerial disclosure of interests and how he had now "assembled a full list" of his in-laws' extensive property holdings.
"Under my initial disclosure, I included a property owned by my wife and another property owned by my wife with her siblings," he said.
"A further property owned by my wife was unfortunately omitted in that disclosure.
"I believe that disclosure was the first required after my appointment as a minister in the Minns Labor government.
"At the time I also disclosed that my father-in-law owned property at Broadmeadow but undertook that I would notify under the code of conduct any changes to any perceived conflict.
"Subsequently, I provided another return which included the omitted property owned by my wife.
"I also provided a subsequent updated disclosure under the ministerial code of conduct that again identified the subject property owned by my wife at Broadmeadow.
"I also took steps to subsequently notify the Premier that I now had become aware of the properties owned within Broadmeadow by my in-laws also now represented a conflict of interest.
"In recent days I again notified the Premier's office that I had now spoken to both my in-laws and my siblings-in-laws to assemble a full list of each of their interests, and I've provided those to the Premier's office."
![The Broadmeadow Road property bought by Laura Crakanthorp in February. The Broadmeadow Road property bought by Laura Crakanthorp in February.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/TFWurqJd3WWgt5tunziPf4/8a8727d2-808d-4f16-8abe-a27ffbd92d38.png/r284_270_881_608_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Mr Crakanthorp's father-in-law, Joseph Manitta, is a property developer whose family has more than a dozen residential and commercial land holdings in Newcastle, including along Broadmeadow Road, Broadmeadow, an area earmarked by the government for future housing development.
Title searches show Laura Crakanthorp bought a commercial property at 30 Broadmeadow Road from a Manitta entity in February for $1.25 million.
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