NSW Labour leader resigns
News.com.au reports:
NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson has resigned.
He announced the decision, just three months before the state election, at NSW Labor’s Sussex Street headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.
It comes after revelations that Mr Robertson signed a letter for Lindt cafe gunman Man Haron Monis in 2011 – two years after the extremist was charged with sending offensive letters to the families of slain diggers.
The letter asked the Department of Families and Community Services to consider granting Monis access to see his children on Father’s Day.
Ouch. MPs need to be careful whom they choose to advocate for. Even before Man Haron Monis turned lethal, he was a deeply repellent figure whom you wouldn’t want to be trying to get favourable Government treatment for.