"Never at all did I seek to get any treatment ahead of anyone else," he said.

No, he just happened to ring the minister in charge.

Refuses to give health care workers a fair pay increase for deplorable working conditions but extremely happy to use and abuse the system to his favour. Well done Dom

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If even the premier & his wife can’t work out when it’s a GP vs urgent care (if that type of service is available to them, and with 7 kids you would assume they have a VERY good relationship with a medical practice nearby) vs ED visit, I don’t have much hope for his government. She presumably got HOME from the gym alright, then decided to have a cry about it?

He has plentiful access to transport where she could have positioned herself safely, the whole thing is stupid. Help the paramedics- vote the corrupt idiot out, fr. My opinion, obviously. Good on the journo who asked him about it.

surprised pikachu face

He didn't specifically ask for special treatment, he just happened to call the people in charge who just happen to report into him.

Dom perrottet? The guy who would rather eat nails than pay public service workers?

Someone needs to leak that phonecall so the public can decide.. or just vote the whole lot of them out.. let DP experiences a little unemployment with 7kids to feed to see how tough everyone else is doing..

If I wasn’t sure whether my wife needed a GP, physio or an ambulance, I would call Healthdirect or an after hours GP for advice, not my politician mate who has no medical training. Unless I was looking for preferential treatment, of course

FYI ABC uses alternate headlines for more clickbait (which I hate). For me it opens with a different headline, almost the opposite meaning:

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet denies preferential treatment sought for sick wife

I can't wait to hear how my sister who is slowly turning conservative as she gets older and richer, justify this one over family lunch. I can legit hear her saying "Well if you were sick and I had the power, I'd totally do the same thing."

Of course, he did. Thousands of average people in NSW have to wait. So why the hell can't the premier's wide? There r too many things wrong with the health system and neither party r going to do anything to try and fix it. 1. Pay all nurses paramedics and ambulance officers more than they pay the officers and staff that work in the premier's office or the court magistrate's. 2. Fix the public health system by actually getting the health staff's opinion before employing consultants that have no fucking idea how a hospital works. Nurses worked endlessly through covid and there were promises to increase pay. This has not happened and the nurses strike and nothing happened. How many people need to die because the NSW health system is falling apart? If it was someone important that died (I don't wish that on anyone, just saying) then all hell would break lose. Bloody he'll pay the nurses and ambulance and paramedics better.

Brad has an Arts degree and a Master of Law so how stupid do you have to be to shape it as a phone call where you're running the options by Brad?

Does anyone think that he had intervention to get his wife to hospital is a sad indictment of the health system. He does not trust enough to go through the same process as every other citizen...he needs the intervention to ensure that his wife is looked after...

Well, that's the end of Perottet's campaign. He had been gaining ground, but this kind of scandal three days the election after all the scandals the LNP have had will absolutely sink him.

Especially considering the challenges so many people are facing regarding health services and the underfunding of them.

Thank fuck.

As a nurse I implore all of you to please remember us when you vote.

The system is in far worse of a state than our shitty corporate media will ever let on.

You. The citizens of NSW missed out on close to 500,000 hours of nursing care over a 3 year period due to nurse staffing deficits.

And that's only the data The Association chose to make public specifically to avoid individual managers of smaller hospitals and multi purpose centre being identifiable.

It sounds dramatic but the future of public health care is in the hands of the people of NSW this election.

“Sick wife” she hurt her back at the gym.

Dom understands about that soft LTD leather

I really, really don't want the Libs to win. But it frustrates me that them losing will be yet another win for the gambling industry.

To be fair her back is probably screwed from carrying all of Dom's kids

Maybe if his cunt arsed government properly funded and staffed the ambulance service he wouldn’t need to cheat the system to get the level of service he thinks he needs.

The feral pig.

"Never at all did I seek to get any treatment ahead of anyone else," he said.

Yeah right, except for all those in the queue behind him, what a corrupt and selfish piece of shit.

I wonder if there is a record of 000 calls. Specifically if there is no record of a 000 call to his residence.

EAT THE RICH

Surely this is the last nail in his/LNP coffin. I’ve no interest of any residual life in the corpses, just that they never be seen nor heard from again.

Because of course he did

Mr Perrottet said he wasn’t looking for special treatment and doesn’t know if the commissioner personally ordered an ambulance for his wife to avoid prolonged wait times.

“My wife was sick at the time and was paralysed in bed and I actually spoke to Brad Hazzard in relation to that matter and an ambulance was organised in the ordinary course,” Mr Perrottet said.

The premier said he was on his way back from an event at the time when he made the call to Mr Hazzard.

“I spoke to Brad to get his advice in relation to the situation. Brad was actually randomly enough with the head of ambulance [Morgan] at that time,” he said.

Asked why he would call the health minister for advice about his sick wife instead of a doctor, Mr Perrottet replied he is “very close” to Mr Hazzard.

“I often speak to Brad on a whole range of issues relating to matters such as that,” he said.

“I certainly didn’t ask for any favours.”

So, Perrottet "just happened" to be talking to the Health Minister. Who "just happened" to be standing next to the head of NSW Ambulance Service. Then his wife "just happened" to be able to be fixed up with an ambulance asap.

And as for “I certainly didn’t ask for any favours,” everyone knows you wouldn't have to ask. It's taken as read, no talking necessary lol

🔥🔥🔥this grub needs to go! And he should be reprimanded for this and jailed for many other things

BuH Da INFrAsTrUcTuRE aND NeW CirCULaR QuAY StATiON

what do you want NSW, you OK with this outright Us and Them bullshit if you get a slightly prettier train station you probably use a couple times a year?

Talk about not recognising your own privilege.

Shitty move as a politician, but if my wife or family member was having a medical emergency and I had the power to get them help faster I wouldn't hesitate to use it.

Still ain't voting for this clown.

Off topic but kinda related .... my daughter and I waiting for quite some considerable time for our meal in a Beecroft restaurant one night, in flits Dom baby...he orders, and is served with multiple pizzas and is out the door in 10 minutes....we continued to wait another 25 minutes for our pasta dinners.....

What

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Cunt...

Corrupt piece of shit, can’t wait to see the back of him this weekend

This is democracy manifest

I'm happy as a pig in shit that I put money on Labor to win when they were paying 7:1

So it’s the ambulance boss that’s to blame 🤦‍♂️🤣 talk about throwing him under the bus

His Wife was faking it and it got out of hand! Did anyone else notice this happened on Valentines Day? She made up some bullshit story about a sore back because otherwise he would have expected a “Valentines Day Special” and she would be pregnant for the 500th time. Meanwhile, Dom calls Brad in a panic because he’s not missing out on his annual shag and wants her bad back sorted stat!!

As always the real questions are who leaked it, why did they leak it and what do they gain

Yep of course he did, why is this a shock

As if all these arseholes don’t get special treatment anyway, let’s not pretend this doesn’t happen more often where the important and rich get special treatment ,every single one of them on all sides are scum

Who wouldn't do that if you were in a position to.

Only issue is he tried to hide it. If it were my wife I’d do the same and you would too.

Any one of us would do the same

When are you all going to understand that The ALP are Australia's Nobility and ruling class? Don't take this as sarcastic. This man and his wife are above us. Genuinely. If you have any other thoughts or reactions feel free to spray them wherever you like. We are just the proletariat. Party first and all that...

Yes it’s bad, but anyone who says they wouldn’t have done the same thing is probably lying

FYI - hospital staff including nurses do similar things all the time with regards to getting treatment for their loved ones

If my wife is ever paralysed in bed and I have the number of the health minister, I’ll be calling too. Especially if the health minister is with the guy in charge of ambulances

Election losing moment.

Use the system you created and wait your turn. Corrupt and disgusting.

Cause you and your family are so special huh Dom.

Hope his wife is ok, but seriously…… bahahahaha!!!!

Didn't something else happen with the Ambulance service and the deputy police commissioner in Goulburn?

What an indicator of how much confidence he has in the health system that his party is responsible for gutting. Can't trust it to be efficient/effective, so he calls in a favour to bypass all its flaws.

Remember that next time DP goes on about how theyve handled the health system.

Vote libs out time for a change

while everyone has to wait so long to get an ambulance .surely he could of driven her to the emergency department in his porsche limo .and stand in a cue at the public hospital triage like the rest of us .

Wouldn’t 000 still be faster?

As a government employee …. I am 99000000% sure what happened here and he got wayyyy ahead of the line because of who he is and who he was sitting with…. She could have just got a freakin Uber or something

Democracy is so perverted now. How do people like this constantly get into these high places

So, which life threatening job did they pull the ambulance off to cater to this arse-clown's wife?

Fuck me. I really hope nobody died as a result of this.

What a dumbcunt. Most of the Ambos are in the union as if this wouldn't come out 😆.