Tom Elliott has highlighted an exchange captured this morning between Communications Minister Anika Wells and Channel 7 journalist Mark Riley.

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“Yes, your job is to follow the rules, but your job is to be a politician and understand that the optics, the politics of what you’ve been doing simply isn’t right,” the 3AW Mornings host pointed out.

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