The 'mad green leftism'of the North Shore Liberals is enough on its own.

Good piece and as a NSW citizen, I TOTALLY concur with all five points. She is a hardnosed pollie and that's how she got the the top of the NSW swamp. In particular it galls me that people praise her for Covid "gold Standard" praise. She allowed, supported and even stood in for Hazzard to Shipping Brad and the arrogant CMO Kerry Chant would allowed not only Ruby Princess debacle to infect Sydney and the rest of Australia, but 62 other ships in between January and March!

Gladys' role as Transport Minister lead to numerous infrastructure deals that will cost generations dearly and as Treasurer, she wasn't much better. Faux feminism is a disgraceful trait, but as you say, the are all Pollies first (and mates wallowing in the rich swamp of Macquarie St), Party members second and finally representatives of their electorate only once every 4 years.

Mind you, Queen Anastasia, Chairman Dan and Staler Commandant McGowan ain't much better than Matahara Gladys!

Lets be both inclusive and for equality. You outlined all the previous corruption in NSW very comprehensively.
They need to treat themselves as they treat us. Increase the penalties, if they will not learn, as they do to us. Mandatory jail sentences for refusal to answer questions and higher penalties for lying.
Goes without saying that pensions should be disallowed for all forced to resign or found guilty. This power should reside with the courts not some sleazy bunch of fellow politicians.

Any defence of that woman shows the sorry state of Australian politics and the riff raff voting citizens. She doesn't have the decency to resign, so should be given the Kerr/Whitlam experience by the NSW Governor. Instead of going off the deep end about US politics, over which they have no control, Australians (not just the New South Welsh), should be taking more interest in their own scumbag politicians. And, get one thing straight about left/right: it's all left these days. All politicians are in the business for themselves, and they are all into the good old socialist stand-by of spending and giving other people's money away to keep them in business.

Nobody with even the slightest conservative views should be voting for any of the current specimens available in Australian politics today.

The feminist take is, as always, pathetic. As is the idea that this woman has been a "good" premier. There is no way anyone who was any good would have found herself in the fix she is in now. That she didn't resign immediately shows that she is no damn good at all.

The three remaining arguments are all true as well.

Well done, Paul Collits.

"No, everyone knows she is tarnished, and should go. Not because anyone better from the sorry NSW Liberal Party would replace her – they are all mere puppets of the hidden, leftist factional bosses – but rather because showing Gladys the door just might signify the start of a very, very long road back for the State to probity, decency, transparency and principled politics."

Well said.

And there's more!

As reported in today's Herald AM online news summary:

COALITION ELECTORATES SHOWERED WITH $250M IN UNAPPROVED GRANTS

It was a bruising period for the Berejiklian government last week, to say the least, and the tumult looks set to continue. It can be revealed that the Coalition handed out more than $250 million in council grants, almost all in Coalition-held seats, without any signed paperwork in the months before last year's state election.

The government confirmed no signed approvals exist for 249 grants rubberstamped between June 27, 2018, and March 2019 from the Stronger Communities Fund. Premier Gladys Berejiklian (pictured above, photo by Nick Moir) directly approved more than $100 million worth of the grants, but the only records of the approvals are in the form of emails from policy advisers. The opposition will attempt to have the leader of the government in the upper house, Don Harwin, suspended from the chamber over the failure to table the documents which apparently do not exist.

Ms Berejiklian is bracing for another eventful week in Parliament, with the focus set to be on her secret five-year romance with disgraced former MP Daryl Maguire, who is the subject of a corruption inquiry. NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro also returns this week from mental health leave after a bitter Coalition spat over koala planning policy.

The Premier's colleagues have publicly vowed there will be no leadership challenge, but one senior Liberal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said: "She will never be able to enforce discipline again."

What the Writing and Society Research Centre's Jane Goodall says: The Premier's ICAC appearance throws light on a dangerous irony that leaves the state at risk.

The same standards and expectations that apparently applied to Julia Gillard ought to also apply here, no question! And in that case the alleged romance was over a decade old! Whereas in the current case for Gladys, hardly has the ink dried.

I'm not saying she has done anything wrong. But in any other workplace a romance between the CEO and a junior rank would have had legal reprecussions! Such as the required resignation of the CEO?

Be that as it may and that Gladys is a competent leader, she has exhibited lack of judgement?

That said, when the dust has settled and the political stosh has ended, personally, I'd give her a second chance and explain that in future, romance ought to be qualified by marriage! Even if, only for appearances. It just cannot look bad!

In summation, in the interest of even-handed fairness, let the people decide if she should go or stay! Not the conga line of patent polital enemies!
Alan B.

On this occasion, absolutely right on, Paul.

See her new and nauseating self-defence, as peddled to yesterday's Tele. Our Glad has "given up on love" and has "always put her job first, and that will now continue indefinitely". You will pardon me, if I throw up.

Steve S,

Spot on.

It's all starting to look like a sordid episode out of some TV soap box opera akin to 'The Bold and the Beautiful'.

She must go. The longer she lingers the worse she starts to smell.

anyone who does dirty deals in order to pass laws to murder unborn babies up to death does not deserve to govern. They should be in prison. Who she sleeps with I could not care less but its obvious now why she was so morally compromised. Pity really as she is ten times more competent than Andrews (who by his own manslaughter laws should be in prison) and Anna and her bunch of corrupt crooks. What a sad state our nation is in when this is the best we can do.

The rum rebellion, smh 12 years ago,

*...The traffic in rum was of little significance, except to some of the non-commissioned officers. Much more important was the conflict between real estate developers and the public interest over the exploitation of prime urban land near the water. Nothing could be more "Sydney" than this...*

Nothing has changed!

That is NSW Politics. And updated again with another sordid disclosure by the same news source. A $M240 slush fund distributed to local governments prior to the last election of our Glady. No paperwork, all distributed to key LNP electorates with email approval. Just another copy of the whiteboard affair.

The only thing that changes in NSW politics is sox, underwear and bedroom antics apparently.

Dan

diver dan,

It's easy to see why I think politicians, bureaucrats and business people are dishonest and untrustworthy.

But how do we get rid of these low-life scumbags and replace them with honest and trustworthy people ............ :-) like me.

Unfortunately Mr O we simply replace their non-preferred bunch of low life scumbags, with our preferred bunch of low life scumbags. If you are resigned to having low life scumbags in power, then at least cheer for your bunch of lowlife scumbags, its more homey to do so.

Its like germs, no one wants to consume other people germs, how gross, but are content to consume their own germs, those tasty little morsels they are. Covid-19 would have got a lot better press if it had be our very own personal germ, and not someone else's bug!

we simply replace their non-preferred bunch of low life scumbags, with our preferred bunch of low life scumbags.
Paul1405,
Looks like your swingers are dropping, you're starting to make good statements such as the above !

pseudo-individual,

From what I have seen of the things you have to say I think you admire the low-life scumbags of the world.

A case of birds of a feather flock together.