Undercover Labor stooge Elizabeth Farrelly to run as 'independent’ - redefining the meaning of the word.
Monday, 24 January 2022
Anyone else think this is a "small misdemeanour?"
Monday, 13 December 2021
For 30 years, Ms Farrelly's been a columnist with the SMH.
She was also registered as a Labor candidate for Strathfield in the last council elections (while registered, she wasn't preselected to stand in the election) - she just forgot to mention it to her readers when she wrote a column critical of her Liberal & Independent opponents.
Now she's been sprung and sacked, she says
“It is grossly disproportionate. It was a small, inadvertent misdemeanour that was met with an irreversible punishment and that is grossly unfair. I can’t think of any other workplace with this kind of treatment of long-standing honourable service and where such treatment would be acceptable.”
The Sydney Morning Herald’s opinion columnist Elizabeth Farrelly will no longer publish a regular column, marking an end to more than three decades of working for the masthead.
The decision was made by the Herald’s editor Bevan Shields after Farrelly failed to disclose that she had registered as a candidate for the Labor Party in the Strathfield local government elections when she wrote a piece criticising Liberal and independent councillors in the electorate. An editor’s note declaring her registration was added to the piece last Friday.
“It is grossly disproportionate,” she said when contacted by this masthead. “It was a small, inadvertent misdemeanour that was met with an irreversible punishment and that is grossly unfair. I can’t think of any other workplace with this kind of treatment of long-standing honourable service and where such treatment would be acceptable.”
“I maintain that there was no undisclosed conflict of interest of which my readers should have been made aware,” she said.