NewsBite

Jo Haylen

Advertisement
Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne with the Prime Minister at the opening of an affordable housing development.

Labor faces internal housing battle in PM’s heartland

Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne made his own housing plan after rejecting the premier’s. But his density push still hasn’t satisfied everyone.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook

Latest

Former federal health minister Michael Wooldridge said he supported laws limiting vaping to people with a prescription.

By the skin of his teeth: Former health minister avoids bankruptcy

ASIC sought to bankrupt Michael Wooldridge over legal costs, thought to be in excess of $2 million, stemming from the collapse of a retirement village company.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Madeleine Heffernan
Plans to slash Sydney Park Junction upgrades were circulated within Transport for NSW four days after then Transport Minister Jo Haylen (right) promised that no such cuts would be made, after she and senior minister John Graham (left) were urgently briefed.

The transport minister made a safety promise. Four days later, it was torn apart

Plans to slash critical upgrades for a major Sydney intersection were shared between Transport bureaucrats four days after the minister ruled out any such cuts.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
Local Government Minister Ron Hoenig, Health Minister Ryan Park and Attorney-General Michael Daley.

Revealed: The NSW ministers who used drivers for family holidays

Both sides of the political divide will be trying to out-do each other over use of taxpayer-funded chauffeurs.

  • Michael McGowan, Max Maddison and Alexandra Smith

To be a political cleanskin, here’s a tip: Abstain from wineries

Both sides of politics have skeletons in the wine cellar. Now the door is being flung open.

  • Alexandra Smith
Jo Haylen.

Unforced errors like Haylen’s are signs of hubris. Voters will have taken note

Jo Haylen’s unauthorised use of a government car and driver begs the question: has the Minns government grown too comfortable with the trappings of power?

  • Alexandra Smith
Advertisement
Rose Jackson, NSW Minister for Housing and Homelessness visits units to be refurbished in Telopea

MPs line up for ministries as Jackson admits she ‘should have spoken up’

The fallout from Jo Haylen’s resignation will force Premier Chris Minns into his first substantial reshuffle since being elected two years ago.

  • Max Maddison
Premier Chris Minns has said Transport Minister Jo Haylen’s lapse in judgment was “absent-minded … not malicious”.

Haylen says she didn’t want to be a ‘distraction’. Garbage. She quit because she was caught

Jo Haylen quits as minister for transport after having rudely discovered in politics there is no such thing as a free ride.

  • The Herald's View
Jo Haylen has resigned as transport minister.

Transport Minister Jo Haylen quits over chauffeur scandal

Haylen, one of Premier Chris Minns’ closest allies in parliament, will step down from the ministry after a string of revelations surrounding her use of ministerial vehicles. 

  • Michael McGowan, Max Maddison and Alexandra Smith
Jo Haylen.

Why Haylen had to go – and why the premier resisted pushing her

Premier Chris Minns is only changing the rules for parliamentary drivers because Jo Haylen was caught out. The government has better things to do with its time.

  • Alexandra Smith

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/joanna-elizabeth-haylen-6fya