Jo Haylen, forced to admit she used her private ministerial driver for a trip with her husband to a Hunter Valley winery, resigned as Transport Minister on Tuesday during crisis talks with Premier Chris Minns.
With the government in crisis over ministers’ perks, fresh details about Transport Minister Jo Haylen’s use of drivers can be revealed … from the weekend sports run, to a private lunch west of the Blue Mountains.
The transport minister’s failure to come clean about using her taxpayer-funded driver for the weekend kids sports run makes a mockery of ministerial entitlements and a fool out of the Premier.
Premier Chris Minns has doubled down on his criticism of two ministers who used a taxpayer funded van to take them to and from a winery, but has said he will not sack them. Tell us what you think, take our poll.
Jo Haylen vowed to build more buses for NSW, but by importing “Ikea-style” flatpack vehicles, much of the manufacturing will be done overseas, costing Australian jobs.
Having a taxpayer-funded ministerial driver trek 446km to pick up Transport Minister Jo Haylen and her friends is bad enough. But what is utterly gobsmacking is that she can’t seem to learn her lesson, writes James O’Doherty.
Peter Dutton has called for an urgent probe into a communications failure between state and federal leaders over Sydney’s foiled anti-Semitic terror plot, saying the Prime Minister can’t continue to cut-and-run from the controversy.
Police officers will be on patrol at Jewish schools at pick-up and drop-off times, with security bolstered in the wake of a potential “mass casualty” attack being foiled. It comes as PolAir helicopters have been sweeping across Sydney’s eastern suburbs during late-night patrols.
The day after police discovered an explosives-laden caravan containing addresses of potential Jewish targets padlocked on the side of a road in Dural, Police Commissioner Karen Webb was trying to take leave.
The NSW Police Commissioner has backed down on her claim the media “compromised” the investigation into the explosive-laden caravan discovered in Dural, saying she did not intend to blame The Daily Telegraph.
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