Another mayor from a local council in southwestern Sydney has criticised the New South Wales government for its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak in the area.
Another mayor from a council in southwestern Sydney has criticised the New South Wales government for its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak in the area.
Cumberland City Council mayor Steve Christou on Monday said his constituents are “very disappointed” and feel Western Sydney and Cumberland have been “singled out” by a controversial police crackdown and increased restrictions on the movement of residents.levelled their own criticisms at the state government over the weekend
, when video footage was also posted on social media of large crowds of maskless people at Bondi in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs. “When we see scenes at Bondi at the beach and boardwalk there, it’s absolutely disgraceful,” Mr Christou told SBS News. “Here we are doing the right thing and getting tested, and yet we have the eastern suburbs, where this outbreak originated, going about their business as usual. Where is the mounted police there?”
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