The Project host Lisa Wilkinson has again ripped into Gladys Berejiklian over her handling of the Covid crisis.
Wilkinson accused the NSW Premier of “doing nothing” and to “step aside” after NSW recorded its worst day of the pandemic.
“I think I speak on behalf of just about everybody that is watching these press conferences at 11am every day — they are almost unwatchable,” she begins.
“The whole situation is completely farcical. On a day when NSW is recording its highest numbers of the pandemic, another family is grieving a loved one, Gladys Berejiklian makes no new restrictions.
“She’s doing nothing, the soft lockdown continues, and we’re all scratching our heads trying to work out if she’s not going to do anything more — why is she continuing with this same rhetoric?”
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Sydney-based Wilkinson said the whole state needs a complete reset, before making a shock call that “if Gladys Berejiklian isn’t up to the job, then she needs to step aside”.
Wilkinson said the premier needs to make room for somebody who is up to the job — “because she’s stuffed this.”
“That’s a technical term. We’re at that point where we need to use technical terms now — it is ridiculous.”
It comes as NSW recorded 681 new cases on Thursday — the worst day of the pandemic.
The Project host continued that “the problem” is that Ms Berejiklian keeps saying there is light at the end of the tunnel.
“When you watch these press conferences, journalists are going hard trying to get that granular information that seems to be missing between these really high numbers and her continually saying, as she has said today, ‘There is a light at the end of the tunnel’.”
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“That light she can see at the end of the tunnel, we can all see it too — it’s a complete bin fire. And somebody else needs to step in.”
Following today’s high case number, Covid restrictions extended across all of NSW, with 11 LGAs now in hard lockdown, including stricter mask rules and a 5km radius travel limit in greater Sydney. The ACT went into a seven-day lockdown from 5pm Thursday.
Wilkinson has since copped some mixed reaction online after calling out the premier — some praising and agreeing with her views, while others strongly disagreed.
“Thank you @Lisa_Wilkinson for your speech. This is how everyone here in NSW is feeling! So angry for being blamed. Tired and frustrated,” one person wrote on Twitter.
“Thank you @Lisa_Wilkinson. Coffee shops, takeaway, Bunnings. Reject Shop, even party shops still open. This madness can’t continue,” said another.
Meanwhile, others accused Wilkinson of being “out of touch with reality”
“LOL “I speak for everyone” @Lisa_Wilkinson Please don’t say that,” one person wrote, while another added: “@Lisa_Wilkinson you don’t speak for me. @GladysB
has been in one of the most stressful roles during this time and is doing what a lot of people want. The journalists in the daily press conferences need a reset.”
It’s not the first time the Wilkinson as hit out at the state premier.
Just three days ago, when Ms Berejiklian said this — “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” — it made Wilkinson see 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?”,’ The Project host 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 sent straight to southwestern Sydney, the heart of NSW’s current outbreak.
“It’s the same with the PM with these vaccines coming in from Poland. Til he was blue in the face, when we had him on the program a couple of weeks ago, he was saying we don’t need extra vaccines to go to southwest Sydney. Now he’s putting half a million in there,” said van Onselen.
Wilkinson has been an outspoken critic of the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic and vaccine rollout, tweeting over the weekend that the country’s current sweeping lockdowns had come “courtesy of Scott Morrison’s handling of the pandemic.”
There is currently 681 (locally acquired) cases in NSW. One man in his 80s has died.
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