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Former ABC weatherman Mike Bailey is one of three ALP candidates to have been employed by New South Wales Lands Minister Tony Kelly after losing an election, the state opposition has revealed. “Mike Bailey Enterprises” is being paid $12,500 a month for “advice”.
Mr Bailey failed to forecast a chance of a storm over the appointment, though he must now concede that the process was partly cloudy.
A Lands Department spokesman denied that the job was a pay-off to the failed candidate, telling The Daily Grind that no-one had more experience looking at a map of New South Wales.
The opposition is demanding that Mr Kelly immediately hire Ten Network weatherman Tim Bailey if only to get him off the air.
Federal Labor may not be unhappy that Mr Bailey failed to get into parliament last year. Too many former ABC staffers and the party would become left-wing.
