Employee Relations Minister Damien Tudehope says NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s gambling reform is being guided by the Crime Commission report, and it has “nothing to do with his faith”.
ClubsNSW boss Josh Landis was sacked effective immediately after claiming the NSW Premier was acting on his “conservative Catholic gut”.
“It is a really regrettable thing if we are, in fact, introducing a level of sectarianism into politics, to the extent we are identifying people’s policy views based on their faith views,” Mr Tudehope told Sky News host James Morrow.
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