Former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian signed off on a two tier Sydney lockdown against the advice of top doctor Kerry Chant, bombshell new emails have revealed.
The decision allowed Sydneysiders in the city’s east to spend lockdown lazing on the beach and the north shore bushwalking – while the west was under near-martial law with a military-enforced 9pm curfew.
But Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant had warned the NSW government to apply the same Covid rules across the whole of