Liberal MP's anger at vote leak

NSW Treasurer Mike Baird / Pic: Ella Pellegrini. Source: The Sunday Telegraph

LIBERAL MLC Catherine Cusack, who voted to recall Treasurer Mike Baird for a budget grilling, has spoken out against her treatment this week.

Ms Cusack was angry the media was told of her vote, which meant Mr Baird would have to face a supplementary budget estimates hearing.

Mr Baird has been under fire after an Auditor-General's report found the state budget contained a $1 billion blunder.

Ms Cusack said she would refer the leaking of the deliberations to the parliament's privileges committee.

Ms Cusack voted for a Labor motion that would shut down all supplementary hearings for the portfolios of Premier, western Sydney, finance, planning and Illawarra, in return for a hearing into the Treasury estimates.

She said she was under the impression that fellow Coalition MPs Melinda Pavey and Matthew Mason-Cox would vote the same way.

Mr Mason-Cox objected, and Ms Cusack was unable to then rescind her original vote.

"It took me by surprise," Ms Cusack said.

"I thought it would be a good result for the government if we could shut down supplementary hearings," she said.

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Liberal MP's anger at vote leak