Prue Car has revealed how she felt being sworn in as NSW Deputy Premier, what she learned from her cancer diagnosis and why fixing the NSW education system is the government's 'most important job'.
Speaking to Sky News Australia’s Paul Murray, Ms Car said she had a case of “imposter syndrome” while being sworn in as Deputy Premier.“I was sitting there this morning in government house, when it was all happening, thinking ‘Hang on, aren’t I a girl from Emu Plains, I’m not sure how this happened, that I ended up here'.Prue Car told Sky News Australia's Paul Murray that she is"super, super pumped" to be able to make a difference in her state.
“It’s been a bit of a rocky road at times, my community has been amazing through this but… I had a cancer diagnosis, I had 3 quarters of my kidney taken out, and I had to take time off work obviously," she told Paul Murray “And now I find myself in a position where I might be able to make a difference to the state. So that’s pretty exciting.”
The Deputy Premier, who will serve as Minister for Education and Early Learning in the Minns Labor government, said there was a need to get to the “root causes” of the problems in NSW education system.
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