Changes of government typically result in a flood of new members into the House of Representatives, especially, of course, on the winner’s side. After winning the election in 2007, 32 ALP members sat, and spoke, in the House of Representatives, for the first time, 39 per cent of Labor’s representation in the lower house. The [...]
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Meanwhile back in the Mooney Mooney ALP branch
A local newspaper reports: Last week’s item on Belinda Neal’s apparent political rehabilitation has been met with scepticism by someone familiar with goings-on in one of her local branches. This column reported that far from being on the outer after last year’s Iguana’s scandal, Neal has been chosen for a prestigious two-week parliamentary trip to [...]
READ MORENSW ALP moves beyond satire
The internal goings-on of the NSW ALP Government have become so absurd that it is now difficult to read reports of these apparently serious power brokering efforts without laughing out loud. Who could make up all this stuff about factions, sub-factions, trogs, terrigals and the rest. Meanwhile, the state’s hospital system is apparently in crisis. [...]
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Book review: Who really won the 2007 election?
Christine Jackman, “Inside Kevin 07″, Melbourne University Press, 2008. Kathie Muir, “Worth Fighting For: Inside the your rights at work campaign”, UNSW Press, 2008. There were two campaigns against the Howard Government in the run-up to the last election: the ALP campaign and the ACTU campaign. These books complement each other insomuch as they provide [...]
READ MOREAnother terrible day for the NSW ALP
The Rees Government is starting to resemble the famous ‘dead parrott’ sketch, this dear readers is a dead government. So many fronts, so much bad news. If it hangs around until 2011, the Rees Government will destroy Labor in NSW for a generation, if not forever. Here are some of today’s highlights: NSW Treasury Secretary, [...]
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O’Farrell, oh dear.
Most people, including many in the Liberal Party, think that Barry O’Farrell and the Opposition parties in NSW should be at least twenty points ahead in the polls given just how bad Nathan Rees and the NSW ALP are travelling. Make no mistake the Rees Government daily plumbs new depths. Tuesday’s mini-budget got the worst [...]
READ MORERudd distances himself from Rees
Nathan Rees has only been NSW Premier for two months but already his dismally bad performance has his federal ALP colleagues (who are due to go to the polls in 2010, before Rees in March 2011) very concerned, prompting this extraordinary front-page Sun-herald story today. Some key excerpts: The Prime Minister has pointed the finger [...]
READ MORERees’ rail disaster is a class betrayal
Anyone with the slightest understanding of politics would have known that replacing a much-touted metro-link to Sydney’s grossly under-serviced north-west with a cheaper but utterly unnecessary rail link to two inner-west suburbs would be a complete PR disaster. Nathan Rees, however, is clueless. Don’t forget the bizarre ‘love and traffic’ and ‘black panther’ episodes. The [...]
READ MORENSW ALP headed towards trainwreck
If this poll is anywhere near accurate, the NSW ALP is already a lame-duck government with virtually no credibility and no authority left: It predicts Labor’s primary vote will plummet to just 24 per cent. That’s even lower than internal ALP polling of a month ago, which put Labor’s primary vote at 29 per cent [...]
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