The Project host Lisa Wilkinson blasted the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian over her handling of the Covid crisis, asking the NSW Premier directly why it’s taken her so long to “wake up?”
The interview was aired on the Sunday night episode of The Project, directly after Saturday’s record high of 466 new Covid cases which the premier labelled a “wake-up call” during her Sunday press conference.
“We can’t stress enough that we don’t want to go down the path of all these other places overseas where they have thousands and thousands of cases a day,” the premier said.
But it was this comment which made Wilkinson come out seeing red.
“I think everyone in NSW yesterday, when she said that the day before was a ‘wake-up call’, everyone in NSW thought – ‘It‘s taken you this long to wake up?”,’ Wilkinson said.
“When you consider on June 24, there was 36 cases with 11 new ones that we’d been alerted to … And, please, Premier, can you stop looking to overseas as a place to refer to?”
Wilkinson’s co-host Peter van Onselen agreed, also criticising Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Sunday morning announcement that 1 million extra Pfizer vaccines would soon be arriving from Poland, with many being sent straight to south-western Sydney, the heart of NSW’s current outbreak.
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