Not at this stage, as a post approval followup story maybe, but a juno confirming 3rd party speak in a disputed area - clumsy at best or being an unintended dick, but a provocateur at a pointy end of negotiations spells idiot. The comments were in an ASIC regulated meeting, and most folk would take them on face value given governance.
Hopefully the requests went the media channes and were filed in the spam folder.