Opinion: Perrottet and Minns need the same conviction: zero tolerance | AlexSmithSMH
For an issue so clearly politically poisonous, Dominic Perrottet took a long time to catch on that John Barilaro’s new career path was going to be anything short of disastrous for his government. The premier did not see the scandal roaring towards him.
In many ways, that job was always the one to be controversial, given a former Liberal government, that of John Fahey in 1993, had to axe it amid an expenses scandal and claims that at that time it was more about hosting garden parties with British society than landing trade deals. Reports soon followed that there were anonymous bullying complaints made against Bankstown MP Tania Mihailuk as part of the same review. Mihailuk, the shadow minister for natural resources, vehemently denies the claims, allegedly made by former staff members, and insists they are part of a political hit job in the lead-up to a messy preselection battle.
Minns has reminded his MPs that there is an internal Labor complaints process available to them, handled by an independent arbiter, former sex discrimination commissioner Susan Halliday. However, as Perrottet discovered, Minns cannot simply assume that relying on an independent process will make him immune from a rolling crisis.
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