Mental health minister battling psychiatrists in pay dispute told to quit after $750 Aus Day chauffeur trip
Mental health minister Rose Jackson used a ministerial car to visit a winery.
The NSW Minister for Mental Health, already under fire over the mass resignation of psychiatrists from the state’s collapsing mental health system, is facing fresh criticism for using a taxpayer-funded ministerial driver for a personal trip during the Australia Day weekend.
Rose Jackson and her friend, NSW Minister for Transport Jo Haylen, travelled to the Hunter Valley’s Brokenwood Wines in NSW for a three-hour lunch using Ms Haylen’s ministerial driver.
The result was a 446km round trip that lasted 13 hours and cost taxpayers approximately $750.
“I made the wrong decision,” Ms Haylen said on Sunday when apologising and confirming she would repay the money herself.
