====== Gladys Berejiklian ======

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**Gladys Berejiklian** is an Australian politician who served as the 45th Premier of [[australia:New South Wales]] and the leader of the [[covid-19_pandemic:politics:New South Wales Liberal Party]] from 2017 to 2021.

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==== Corruption ====

Mining magnate and politician [[Clive Palmer]] alleged during a September 15, 2021 press conference that Berejiklian was under the influence of [[pharmaceutical_companies|pharmaceutical lobbyists]]. "She is being directed by a lobbyist in Sydney who is being paid by [[pharmaceutical_companies:AstraZeneca]] and by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]] tens of millions of dollars to get these policies through to make sure the [[covid-19_vaccines|vaccine]] is pushed."((Staying Alive. (2021, September 18). //Clive Palmer, says the Premier of NSW, Gladys Berejiklian, is controlled by pharmaceutical lobbyists [Video].// BitChute. https://www.bitchute.com/video/1NnGvfFIb0jq/))

Palmer further claimed that the same lobbyist controls the [[covid-19_pandemic:politics:Australian Liberal Party]] in Sydney and is using the threat of the [[Independent Commission Against Corruption]]’s (ICAC) inquiries into Berejiklian to pull her strings and push the vaccines.((Editor. (2021, September 16). //Palmer exposes corrupt big pharma politics and blackmail in NSW.// Cairns News. Retrieved December 5, 2021, from https://cairnsnews.org/2021/09/15/palmer-exposes-corrupt-big-pharma-politics-and-blackmail-in-nsw/))

Berejiklian announced her resignation from government on October 1st, 2021 after ICAC said it was investigating whether she was involved in conduct between 2012 and 2018 that "constituted or involved a breach of public trust".((Channel News Asia. (2021, October 1). //Australia’s New South Wales state premier resigns over corruption probe amid COVID-19 battle.// CNA. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/gladys-berejiklian-australia-new-south-wales-premier-resigns-corruption-probe-2214616)) ((Choudhury, S. R. (2021, October 1). //Leader of Australia’s most populous state resigns as corruption watchdog launches investigation.// CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/australia-new-south-wales-premier-gladys-berejiklian-resigns.html)) Initial reporting claimed the conduct in question was her "close personal relationship" with "disgraced politician" Daryl Maguire, which Berejiklian admitted had lasted from 2015 until August 2020.[9]

Maguire had been a fellow Liberal MP until a previous inquiry had heard that he had sought inappropriate payments, leading to his resignation in 2018.[10] As a result, a vote of no-confidence was taken against Berejiklian in parliament. She survived the vote in the lower house with 47–38, and in the upper house with 21–20, after a deciding vote from the Liberal president.[11]