Prime Minister and Cabinet published and deleted caretaker notice before the election was called.
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00:00Are we in caretaker right now?
00:02Senator, no, we're not in caretaker right now.
00:04Why did PM&C nine minutes ago, or probably ten minutes ago now,
00:09put online that the government is now operating in accordance with caretaker conventions?
00:14Does that mean I can leave?
00:16I think we can all leave, exactly.
00:18The bad news is the Prime Minister didn't get to call the election, PM&C did.
00:22I don't know who's running the country, good God.
00:28Senator, my colleagues are trying to work out why this occurred,
00:32so I will just say that obviously this is an error, and we apologise for that.
00:39It was up for a period of four minutes.
00:42I became aware of it approximately nine minutes ago,
00:46and my corporate colleagues are addressing how this occurred.
00:54I can assure you we're not in caretaker.
00:56I can say that there is, of course, the guidance on the caretaker conventions,
01:01which is available on our website, and has been available on our website since mid-December.
01:06So that is available, but yes, we are not in caretaker.
01:11This is clearly an error.
01:12We are trying to find out why it occurred, and we apologise.