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Disasters can bring out the best and worst in all of us but last week’s performance by the NSW Health Minister where he openly abused the NSW Opposition leader, under Parliamentary privilege, was extremely low.
The Opposition Leader justifiably asked about face masks and was subject to a tirade of sexist, ugly comments from Hazzard – typical of old, conservative white men abusing a female, as they cannot cope with a woman in power.
Hazzard eventually offered an apology but only after he was pilloried by the press.
Parliament is a place of work and, if any other worker in a workplace behaved in a similar manner, they would have been severely reprimanded or sacked, yet the Premier turned a blind eye to this matter.
Also last week the Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, could not help but have a political shot at the Member for Gosford when she asked about face masks; he responded that his Government would be guided by medical advice not the Labor Party.
Mr Crouch should be aware of the fact that in the NSW Lower House, the ALP holds more seats that the Liberals and the Liberals are only governing with the “help” of the ineffective and inefficient National Party.
Each and every member of Parliament is there to govern for the State or Commonwealth and represent their constituents, yet all we see is party politics played out over and over again.
Shame on all of them.
Email, Aug 31
E. Grace, Niagara Park