Good riddance to a bad Gladys

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The number of rotten narratives surrounding Gladys Berejiklian’s exit is staggering. They range from partisanship to sexism and all are symptomatic of the same thing, the collapse of anything resembling truth.

The facts are simple. Gladys Berejkilian was accused of corruption and is under investigation for it. She should have resigned a year ago. Instead, she hid behind gender smokescreens that feminists have endeavoured to rid women of for centuries. This is pure narcissism.

Worse, that same self-centered political pride led her to deliberately unleash COVID upon the Australian east coast. When faced with minor and obviously controllable outbreak, Gladys elected to unleash the plague instead of losing a pissing contest with Dan Andrews. This is pure narcissism.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.