Comments on: Newspoll: 55-45 to Coalition in NSW

By: philofsydney

philofsydney — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:40:16 +0000

I’m dissapointed every time Arnie isn’t called Governator in an article.

By: zombie mao

zombie mao — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:37:51 +0000

and you thought NSW was bad. Say hello to California:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/26/BAPD18EOGV.DTL

CRIKEY!

By: Oz

Oz — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:42:09 +0000

The Greens may have come second in Vaucluse but it was a very distant second. 20.4 % vs. 59.9% for the Liberals.

Similar stuff in North Shore. 17.9% vs. 53.4%.

By: blackburnpseph

blackburnpseph — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:24:24 +0000

Getting back to the Greens seat chances ….

One seat that the Greens would surely have a chance of winning is Sydney, should Clover Moore decide to retire in 2011 or 2015.

One likely outcome also is that the Greens could quite likely come second in a swag of safe liberal seats (they came second in Vaucluse and Northj Sore last time if I recall). Maybe someone should open a book on how many seats the ALP will record a single digit vote in … 7 or 8?

By: Tom the first and best

Tom the first and best — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:50:06 +0000

No, they definitely did cut the required number of MLCs from 4 to 2.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:27:27 +0000

Tom@38,

For party status in Victoria, unless I’m mistaken there is no set number of MLA’s or MLC’s needed for party status, you only need 10 MP’s.

By: Tom the first and best

Tom the first and best — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:46:56 +0000

Thank-you I have been looking for that information for a while. You wouldn`t happen to have the same information for Victoria would you? I have tried hard to find Victoria but all I know is from a news item around the time of the last state election that the number of MLCs needed for party status was cut from 4 to 2 (the Nats went from 4 to 2) and that there would still be a minimum number of 10.

By: Oz

Oz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:32:42 +0000

I think the more interesting implication of party status is what you get in terms of resources, like staff.

I’ve tried reading the remuneration act to figure out if it’s stipulated there but got bored.

By: Sam Bauers

Sam Bauers — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:52:29 +0000

In NSW at 10 MLAs you get:

* A Leader in the Legislative Assembly
* A Deputy Leader in the Legislative Assembly
* A Party Whip in the Legislative Assembly

At 9 MLCs you get:

* A Deputy Leader in the Legislative Council

As far as I can tell this is not constitutionally bound and is in fact tied to the parliamentary remuneration act (of all things), so it’s certainly possible it can change.

There seems to be no actual wording in any legislation I could find about what “party status” is, but the implication is that you aren’t a party until you have a party leader in the Legislative Assembly.

By: Oz

Oz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:19:15 +0000

Sertse, are you talking about preference deals or voting on legislation?