What Gallop said - and what he should have said.

[Canteen Worker]

shows how gullible the public is whatever they read in the papers they treat as truth

That is part of the problem - fallacious reporting about assaults in stairwells etc that never happened.

Gallop should have said that he acted on wrong information, apologizing unreservedly to Brett Stewart and the Manly Club and returning the $100 000 that was wrongly applied as a fine.