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June 18, 2026

Bumbling Berejiklian

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The chooks have certainly come home to roost for the corruption riddled NSW government and ‘our’ scandal plagued premier. Fair dinkum, this bumbling woman is incapable of making a rational decision – how is she still premier?

Just when all the great work has been done by the Labor premiers of Qld, Vic, WA, ACT and the NT in suppressing the spread of COVID-19, Berejiklian’s political dithering in imposing a lockdown has allowed the virus to get out of control and put all of NSW – and Australia – at risk.

This is the same woman who played grubby politics by constantly ridiculing Annastacia Palaszczuk on her strict border closures that protected Queenslanders so well; and attacked Vic Premier Daniel Andrews when he had to deal with the terrible outbreak in the federally controlled aged care sector. Gladys would be best advised to drop her conservative arrogance and learn from the Labor premiers’ successes.

Gladys is now playing the blame-game card, to deflect attention from her incompetence. We were originally told ‘NSW will have no more lockdowns’, that went well. There is now a shit-fight going on, not only within the government, but also with the Federal government over their botched vaccine rollout. It’s a toss-up which government will win the award for ‘gold standard’ incompetent corruption.



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