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CRACKS are opening within NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s government over her ruthless response to COVID cases. Deputy Premier & National Party leader John Barilaro has sided with Labor leader Chris Minns in criticising Ms Berejiklian’s efforts to impose even more aggressive lockdowns. …
SENIOR NSW cabinet ministers have been ordered by ICAC to hand-over potentially damning evidence as the Berejiklian government faces comparisons with the corruption-riddled Keneally Labor government. Treasurer Dominic Perrottet, Deputy Premier John Barilaro and possibly Environment Minister Matt Kean have all been served section 22 orders, according to The Australian newspaper.
THE Berejiklian government remains teetering despite Nationals leader John Barilaro walking back plans to withdraw his parliamentary support. The Deputy Premier last week announced – then withdrew – plans to lead his entire Nationals team to the cross benches in response to the government’s latest Greens-inspired environmental planning policy – the so-called koala habitat protection plan.
NSW NATIONALS leader John Barilaro started it, by threatening to take his bucket and spade from the sandpit and go play on the cross benches. He made a thorough goose of himself on two counts: tittle-tattling to the public about matters that should have been sorted out behind closed doors and displaying his ignorance of constitutional conventions.
ANGER over NSW’s hard lurch leftwards has spilled into public view, with voters expressing disgust at the Berejiklian government’s Greens-inspired policy agenda. The government’s direction has become so unpalatable that its Nationals coalition partner has announced it would move to the cross bench en masse.
