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Speeding Minister needs to go
New South Wales' Minister for Local Government, Kerry Hickey, has now admitted to four speeding offences since 2002. In the most recent he was going 140km/h in a 100km/h zone. Since New South Wales has no speed limits higher than 110km/h he can hardly claim to have been unaware, at that speed, that he was breaking the law. Nor can he claim the law was ambiguous or uncertain, or open to constitutional challenge on this point. This is not an inadvertent breach - at that level it must be deliberate. The fact that there are more offences reinforces this view.
The real problem here is that as a member of Parliament, Hickey is part of the process that makes the laws. In my view it is wrong to be a part of that process if you are going to show this level of disregard for the law. How can the Parliament expect other people to follow the law if its own members pick and choose the laws they will follow.
Hickey needs to resign as a Minister and from Parliament, and if he will not resign as a Minister he should be sacked.