What happens when a freshly minted minister doesn’t like one of the policies she inherited from the opposition? She helps a friendly newspaper to expose it as easily subjected to fraud, and then axes the discredited policy in the budget.
This comedy of errors was exposed during New South Wales budget estimates this week when Labor minister Jenny Aitchison admitted a Daily Telegraph journalist “was given” a travel card by someone in the government or the department, although she couldn’t recall by whom.
