13 October

I think Gladys is likeable. A competent politician, those who would replace her from her side are mostly hopeless. I’d be surprised if she survives the latest scandal, she knew about the corruption, there’s no escape from that. But one thing that irritates me is the mythology about how wonderfully she’s managed the pandemic. Just evidence people pay no attention to actual detail. NSW like 95% of the rest of the country eliminated Covid in the first national lockdown. It’s not NSW’s contact tracing that has kept numbers low here, it’s that first lockdown. NSW could have been as virus-free as those 6 other States months ago, if she didn’t have that idiot belief about balancing the economy against the virus.