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If NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian can’t “share the suffering” of the public then she has “forfeited the right to lead and the right to be believed”.

“I am saying this to you, Premier Berejiklian, in your brazen, defiant, ego-driven, thoughtless, careless, indifferent, selfish, dogmatic, dictatorial, unbending, I’m always right approach,” Mr Jones said.

“I know you don’t like Cabinet meetings and you don’t conduct them because you won’t tolerate disagreement, even in relation to the construction industry, because – as I have said – you know everything, you’ve never been wrong.”

Mr Jones called on the Premier to call a Cabinet meeting and propose all the politicians and bureaucrats “share the suffering” felt by those upon which they are “imposing trauma”.

“Cut your parliamentary salaries immediately to $600 a week, which is what you’re asking people in these circumstances to live on,” he said.

“And if you can’t do that, don’t ever again suggest you are a leader or that you should be listened to.”