Della Bosca had to go and he knew it The Australian
The minister's poor judgment has failed the state of NSW
NOTHING became John Della Bosca's ministerial career more than the way he ended it. "I've taken my medicine, I have to live up to my poor decisions," he said yesterday. In resigning over revelations in Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper that an extra-marital affair had impeded his performance, the former NSW health minister acted appropriately. His continued presence on the front bench would have made his personal affairs, not his political performance, an issue, burdening an already staggering state government. And while his private life is precisely that, he has demonstrated an ill-discipline unacceptable in a senior minister, especially one with an abiding interest in the state's top job. Mr Della Bosca disputes claims he "deliberately" missed a flight on ministerial business to stay with his lover and that he stopped a security guard registering the lady as a visitor to his Parliament House office. And he says he did not "breach" his duties as a minister and MP during the relationship. But when added to last year's unseemly "Iguanagate" nightclub dispute there is no avoiding the obvious conclusion that Mr Della Bosca does not always consider the consequences before he acts. In having an affair that was not especially discreet, Mr Della Bosca courted the disaster that has now occurred.
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