‘Standard set by the left’: Queensland Premier under fire for holiday during Gold Coast floods

The Courier Mail’s Damien Tomlinson says Queensland Premier Steven Miles being under fire for taking a Christmas holiday while the Gold Coast was being inundated with floods was a “standard set by the left” and he has to “conform” to that standard. Mr Miles cut his holiday short to front a press conference with Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate on Tuesday. “I think being a North Queenslander … we probably would prefer to see less of politicians during natural disasters, but the standard has been set by the left and the Labor government in Opposition, unfortunately,” Mr Tomlinson told Sky News host James Macpherson. “ScoMo’s sort of stumbling answer to that question about holding a hose, sadly, has set the standard, and now, unfortunately, politicians are judged by where they turn up and when. “So, Miles – as unfair as it is, and I think they’re all entitled to holidays – has to now conform to that standard which his own side has set.”