Gladys Berejiklian resigns after an investigation was announced into her conduct with former legislator Daryl Maguire over grant funding
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian announces her resignation at a news conference in Sydney, Australia, on October 1 2021. Picture: AAP IMAGE/BIANCA DE MARCHI VIA REUTERS
Berejiklian will leave the role as premier of New South Wales as soon as the incumbent Liberal Party selects a new leader, she said on Friday. She will also leave the parliament entirely as soon as a by-election can be organised. The New South Wales state Independent Commission Against Corruption will hold a public inquiry from October 18 that will investigate her conduct between 2012 and 2018. The body will investigate whether Berejiklian breached public trust in circumstances where she was in a position of conflict between her public duties and her private interest as a person who was in a personal relationship with the then New South Wales MP Daryl Maguire in connection with grant funding.
“To continue as premier would disrupt the state government during a time when our entire attention should be focused on the challenges confronting New South Wales,” she said. Sydney, Australia’s largest city has been in lockdown for almost 14 weeks as the state battles a coronavirus outbreak, with many other parts of the state’s regions in and out of lockdown since the end of June. The city is due to exit its lockdown around October 11.
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