Exclusive: Minns issues ultimatum to Mihailuk - stop attacking colleagues or be demoted
NSW Labor frontbencher Tania Mihailuk has been warned she will be stripped of her shadow cabinet position if she uses parliamentary privilege to attack party colleagues ahead of the election., where she attacked Canterbury-Bankstown mayor Khal Asfour, linking him to corrupt former minister Eddie Obeid.Credit:Asfour is a Labor candidate on the party’s upper house ticket for the March election, along with other newcomers including Dubbo barrister Stephen Lawrence and Cessnock nurse Emily Suvaal.
“This must be investigated,” Mihailuk said, adding she had tried to raise concerns with ALP bosses, including disgraced former general secretary Jamie Clements and current secretary Bob Nanva. Minns’ office was contacted for comment. Minns said on Wednesday he planned to meet with Mihailuk that afternoon to discuss why she decided to air the allegations in parliament. He also said Asfour had referred the allegations to the Independent Commission Against Corruption .Mihailuk’s allegations in parliament relate, in part, to a 25-storey development proposed for a Bankstown property owned once by the Obeids and now owned by Eddie’s long-time friend and business partner Wally Wehbe.
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