The Minister of Transport of NSW has resigned for its expenditure of tax money, including a Boozy trip to a winery.
“Like I said on Sunday, I made mistakes, people are not perfect,” said Jo Haylen during the media in Sydney during Tuesday afternoon.
'I did not violate the rules, but I acknowledge that that is not the only test here. I have abandoned the audience and I am very sorry.
“We were chosen to be better than the last government. This morning I told the prime minister that I will resign my position as a Minister of Transport. I will continue to serve the government as a member for Summer Hill. '
Mrs. Haylen's private outing to the Hunter Valley during the Australia Day Lang Weekend with Minister of Housing Rose Jackson, their spouses and two friends cost the taxpayer $ 750.
Her ministerial driver waited outside for politicians while they ate and drank their way through a three -hour lunch in Fine Dining Restaurant The Wood.
In total, the driver worked for 13 hours and covered 450 kilometers, while promoting the group to and from the private event.
It happened in the midst of a constant wage conflict between the NSW government and the rail associations that train attacks and commuting schaos have hit with millions of Sydneysiders.
Mrs. Haylen's private outing to the Hunter Valley over the Australia Day Long Weekend cost the taxpayer $ 750
Prime Minister Chris Minns described on Tuesday the journey of Mrs. Heylan as a 'Big Black Mark for the Government'
Mrs. Haylen admitted on Sunday that the indulgence “did not endure the pub test” and promised to pay the bill.
“I made the wrong decision here. I apologize for this, “she told reporters.
“In this case it is not about the rules that are about the public expectation I have not fulfilled.”
But on Monday the storm grew over her editions. There were new revelations about her use of ministerial administrators – she had also used the government car for a family lunch to the west of the Blue Mountains, and for a sports run between Caves Beach and Sydney.
Mrs. Haylen went to the ground, with her furious boss, Prime Minister Chris Minns, who spoke on behalf of her.
On Tuesday, Mr Minns Gobsmacked was about the expenditure of his transport minister when 2 GB breakfast host Ben Fordham claimed that her journey to a winery on the dime of the taxpayer was just the tip of the iceberg.
'What are you going to do, if I, when I am aware, will come out another example involving her driver who brought her to another winery/wine tasting last year, which lasted longer than the 13-hour trip on the Australia Day Long Weekend? ” Asked Fordham.
“I am at a disadvantage, I know nothing about the circumstances in which you present them to me,” Minns replied.
On Tuesday Mr. Minns Gobsmacked remained about the expenditure of his transport minister
'Fair enough, you have the right to ask, but I don't know. That would clearly be very disturbing. '
“Did you check with Jo if there was still a winery?” said Mr. Fordham.
“I mean, I checked whether there were other incidents or examples, just like the media, I take her on her word,” Mr Minns replied.
Mr. Fordham said he believed that a new revelation could soon come to light, so that Chris Minns remains visibly stunned.
“Of course I would be very worried if there was another example,” he said.
Mr. Minns admitted that Hunter Valley's journey was 'indefensible'.
“I find this very harmful. It is clear that this is a large black marking for the government. '
But he defended the use of Mrs. Heylan of the car for a weekend sports run and said she went to work afterwards, and “then it was a working day that followed afterwards.”
On Monday there were new revelations about the use of Mrs. Heylan of ministerial drivers
In her declaration of dismissal on Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Heyland said: 'I want to set up the record, I also made a trip last year with my husband to the Hunter Valley.
“They were not the same circumstances as on January 25. I worked on that day, but I acknowledge that the use of my personal director was of judgment of my opinion.
'My mistakes now cause the damage to the government. Politics is difficult. The expectations are very high. I know that. '
She added that “from the last moment I was appointed minister, I finished.”
Conservative commentator Prue MacSever told Daily Mail Australia prior to the resignation of Mrs. Heylan that her junk in Sydney, given the forens in Sydney, was 'cynical and shameful'.
“She shows contempt – she shows an elitist attitude,” said Mrs. MacSes.
'She comes from the socialist left -wing faction of the Labor Party, and here she waves around without responsibility to the public.
'If Minns says she has a lack of judgment, what is her opinion about something else? Her feeling of justice is amazing. '
Conservative commentator Prue MacSever told Daily Mail Australia that Mrs. Haylen's junket was 'cynical and shameful'
According to the official tree of the Hunter Valley trip, the government managed Kia Carnival Sydney, managed by the government at 8 hours to pick up Mrs. Haylen and her husband Garth William in their Caves Beach Holiday Home on the NSW Central Coast north of Sydney.
The vehicle also took the NSW minister of Housing Rose Jackson, her husband Sam Crosby and two other friends.
The group traveled to Brokenwood Estate, about an hour away to the north at Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley.
There they enjoyed a three -hour lunch in the restaurant of the winery The Wood, which has a fixed $ 105 menu per person before wines are linked.
When lunch was finally over, the driver drove the group back to the beach house of Caves. He then drove back to Sydney and finished at 9 p.m.
