Labor MP resigns portfolio after revelations into her use of taxpayer-funded ministerial car for private purposes and criticism from premier Chris Minns
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Jo Haylen has quit as the New South Wales transport minister following revelations about her use of a ministerial car for private purposes.
It emerged on the weekend that Haylen had asked her chauffeur to take her and some friends to a winery lunch on the Australia Day weekend. It involved a 13-hour 446km round-trip for the driver, from Sydney to Haylen’s holiday house at Caves Beach, and then to a Hunter Valley winery and back.
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