“I know how much she is trusted and respected by the people of NSW,” he added.īerejiklian became New South Wales premier in January 2017 following the resignation of Mike Baird. resigns from PHoN over release of secretly recorded footage of him meeting with.
AUSTRALIA GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN RESIGNS SERIES
“My resignation as premier could not happen at a worse time, but the timing is completely outside of my control as the ICAC has chosen to take this action during the most challenging weeks of the most challenging times in the history of NSW,” she said on Friday.įollowing her announcement, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison praised Berejiklian, adding that she was a dear friend who had “displayed heroic qualities” in her job. Gladys Berejiklian, and former prime minister John Howard First Leaders. The premier of Australia‘s biggest state economy New South Wales (NSW), Gladys Berejiklian, resigned on Friday after a corruption watchdog said it was investigating whether she was. Senior Liberal sources are adamant Gladys Berejiklian will not survive today’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) hearing, following a series of bombshells revealed today, and. Nevertheless, she was forced to resign from Parliament and her electoral seat of Willoughby in North Sydney. She said that she had kept the relationship a secret because she was a “very private person”. Gladys Berejiklian announced that her resignation could not happen at a worse time. Maguire told an inquiry last year he had received envelopes containing thousands of dollars in cash at his parliament office as part of a scheme for Chinese nationals to fraudulently acquire visas.īerejiklian had also told the anti-corruption body last year that she was in a “close personal relationship” with Maguire from “around the 2015 state election”. The potential breach involved grant funding promised to community organisations in Maguire’s electorate of Wagga Wagga. The premier of Australia’s biggest state economy New South Wales (NSW), Gladys Berejiklian, resigned on Friday after a corruption watchdog said it was investigating whether she was involved in conduct that constituted or involved a breach of public trust, Reuters reports. The ICAC statement said the scope of the commission’s investigation had widened and includes “whether, between 20, the Hon Gladys Berejiklian MP engaged in conduct that constituted or involved a breach of public trust by exercising public functions in circumstances where she was in a position of conflict between her public duties and her private interest as a person who was in a personal relationship with the then NSW Member of Parliament, Mr Daryl Maguire”. The shock resignation of Premier Gladys Berejiklian came the same day she was named, alongside three other state premiers, the most powerful person in Australia.
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