Glenn Bedingfield lashes out at Standards Commissioner George Hyzler
Labour MP Glenn Bedingfield on Monday lashed out at Standards Commissioner George Hyzler and said the way he is acting showed how the holder of his office should not be a former MP, let alone a former member of a previous Cabinet. Speaking in parliament on the adjournment, Bedingfield said he agreed that there should be a Standards Commissioner but standards should apply to all and the commissioner should lead by example. That, unfortunately, was not the case. Bedingfield said that the commissioner insisted that parliamentary questions should be answered and answered on time, but was refusing to reply to questions, submitted more than a month ago, about the contracts of his own employees. The commissioner who rapped the government for employing people in positions of trust and claimed that the system breached the constitution, had himself engaged five of his six staff members on positions of trust, Bedingfield said. Despite what was expected of the government, Hyzler had engaged his staff without issuing a call. 'Driver on pay scale nine' Bedingfield posed a series of questions aimed at Hyzler. Would the commissioner explain why he had hired certain people, including people who...