New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian “said the quiet bit out loud” when she was asked about pork-barreling, says Sky News host Paul Murray.
It comes after the premier on Tuesday – responding to a question about pork-barreling – said “if you want to accuse us of making decisions about being specific about where we direct dollars, I don’t know any public figure who hasn’t made a decision about where to direct dollars”.
“The reason I was very direct about that sentence was because the public knows that too,” she said.
Mr Murray said “there’s all the obvious reaction that you have when somebody talks about pork-barreling as though that’s what happens, you go ‘that’s pretty outrageous’,”
“Then there’s the other part of you that says, ‘you have an expectation that when team red is in charge, if they can push a bit in red’s way they will’.
“That’s kind of the spoils of winning.”