Jo Haylen quits as NSW transport minister after 446km chauffeur trip for winery lunch

 

Jo Haylen stops as NSW transport serve after 446km chauffeur trip for vineyard lunch

Labor MP leaves portfolio after disclosures into her utilize of taxpayer-funded ecclesiastical car for private purposes and feedback from chief Chris Minns

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Jo Haylen has stopped as the Unused South Grains transport serve taking after disclosures approximately her utilize of a ecclesiastical car for private purposes.

It developed on the end of the week that Haylen had inquired her chauffeur to take her and a few companions to a vineyard lunch on the Australia Day end of the week. It included a 13-hour 446km round-trip for the driver, from Sydney to Haylen’s occasion house at Caves Shoreline, and at that point to a Seeker Valley vineyard and back.

“I have made botches; individuals aren’t perfect,” Haylen said on Tuesday as she studied out her renunciation explanation. She did not take questions.

“I did not break the rules, but I recognize that’s not the as it were test here. I’ve let the open down and I’m exceptionally too bad for that. We were chosen to be superior than the final government.”

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Jo Haylen on take note over any more disclosures after inquiring chauffeur to drive 446km for vineyard lunch

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It was detailed on Monday that Haylen had moreover utilized a taxpayer-funded driver to ship herself and her children from Caves Shoreline – approximately 100km north of Sydney – to the city for end of the week wearing events.

Ministerial cars and drivers can be utilized for private purposes beneath the current rules in NSW. But Haylen conceded on the end of the week the Seeker Valley vineyard lunch fizzled the “pub test”.

The chief, Chris Minns, prior on Tuesday was inquired almost potential encourage disclosures. News Corp Australia detailed the transport serve supposedly utilized a ecclesiastical car to take her family west of the Blue Mountains for a lunch.

The active serve conceded at her snap press conference she had moreover taken another trip to the Seeker Valley with her spouse utilizing a ecclesiastical car in 2024.