Analysis: As questions are asked of Labor, David Elliott and Matt Kean were busy criticising each other
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Ironically, the horror of the past two months for the government – which has seen two MPs resign from cabinet in the wake of separate controversies – had overshadowed an extraordinary series of salvoes which Elliott had aimed at Kean. Leaving aside the minutiae of who is or isn’t to blame for a saga which has dragged on for the length of some industrial agreements, in political terms, the timing couldn’t have been worse.and leader Chris Minns’s handling of the bullying accusations levelled against his now former shadow police minister Walt Secord.NSW treasurer and deputy Liberal leader Matt Kean described David Elliott’s comments as an ‘embarrassing outburst’.
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