NSW Mental Health Minister did not question $750 chauffeured ride to winery ‘because I was excited by my birthday lunch’
The NSW Minister for Mental Health has defied calls to quit over a $750 taxpayer-funded trip to a winery for her birthday lunch.
Rose Jackson, who has overseen the mass resignation of public hospital psychiatrists in response to chronic understaffing of the state’s mental health system, has fronted the press over her use of a chauffeured van on the Australia Day long weekend to visit NSW’s Hunter Valley.