NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s admissions to pork-barrelling and not self-isolating bring her ‘school captain’ image undone

It’s been a week full of surprising confessions from Gladys Berejiklian.

From her (eventual) acceptance that she failed to follow her own health advice, to her startling admission her Government pork-barrelled: it’s perhaps a sign the Premier has grown accustomed to a level of popularity untouched by scandal.

And when a leader is so emboldened, hubris can cloud good judgement.

Her decision to take a COVID test and then not self-isolate is at best a lapse in judgement and at worst blatant double standards.

Voters don’t like one rule for them and one rule for leaders — especially if those voters have lost wages, missed worked opportunities or personal celebrations because they did the right thing after having their COVID test.

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