Wednesday, September 1, 2010

NSW Ports - a dangerous workplace for Ministers

Well here we go again. Another NSW Minister resigns following one more scandal! Premier Keneally announced at the commencement of Question Time that Minister for Ports and Waterways, Paul McLeay, had resigned this morning at her request after it came to light that he had used a Parliamentary computer to access "adult sites" and online gambling. You could have heard a pin drop in the Chamber!

On one hand this seems unbelievable. On the other hand, another scandal in a now long list for this Government was probably more likely than not. As Peter Besseling (Port Macquarie) said, he wouldn't be surprised if one day the Premier introduced Question Time with advice that one of the Members was an alien! "Yep, I could see that coming" he would say without blinking and return to his inimitable rendition of Dolly Parton's "9 to 5".