A NSW MP has been fined $1000 after staying at his Central Coast holiday home and breaching a coronavirus public health order
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In a Cabinet meeting he had argued against the travel restrictions without declaring a conflict of interest, The Daily Telegraph reported. Officers spoke with the 55-year-old on Thursday and fined him after they were alerted to the fact he had relocated to the Pearl Beach holiday home"in contravention of current Ministerial Direction under the Public Health Act," NSW Police said in a statement.NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian had defied calls to sack the MP and said she would wait for police to first establish the facts.
Not wanting to"cause a distraction", Mr Harwin confirmed he had arrived back in Sydney in a statement on Thursday.
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