In a well-executed media stunt (labelled an ‘exclusive’ by the Daily Telegraph, LOL) the NSW Government has come up with an idea to try and carve out a future in the (mis)management of the state’s health system. Apart from being an ‘exclusive’, the stunt also has two other elements designed to give it media appeal: [...]
Nathan Rees chief of staff, Wedderburn, is right, the NSW Ministers are hopeless media performers.
Part of the reason for that is that for the most part they are dull, unintelligent and uninspiring people. But perhaps even more importantly they have nothing of substance to say. They are a strategy-free zone. The NSW Government is directionless. [...]
January 29, 2009 – 9:50 am
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. [...]
November 15, 2008 – 10:53 am
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, John Pierce, [...]
November 13, 2008 – 8:42 am
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 public [...]
By Trevor Cook
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Posted in NSW politics
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Also tagged ALP, elections, Jeff Kennett, Joe Hockey, John Brogden, Ken Henry, Liberals, Mike Baird, Nationals, O'Farrell, polls, Rees, Rudd
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November 6, 2008 – 8:24 am
A friend of mine has this letter in the SMH:
The biggest issues facing Australia are the global economic crisis and climate change.
The Federal Government is spending to stimulate the economy and taking steps to reduce emissions. The Reserve is reducing interest rates to spark consumer spending.
Meanwhile, Nathan Rees is working hard in [...]
November 2, 2008 – 10:21 am
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 at [...]
October 19, 2008 – 9:42 am
The Bass by-election of 28 June 1975 which heralded the demise of the Whitlam Government produced a swing of only 13.8% against the ALP. Yesterday’s three by-elections produced swings of 13% in Lakemba and 22% plus in Ryde and Cabramatta. Nathan Rees is trying to argue that these are not judgments on him but on [...]
October 14, 2008 – 5:24 pm
Photo lifted from Stilgherrian who has more commentary on the state of our underground trains.
October 14, 2008 – 2:54 am
Rees boasted that he would stop the spin, but that was five weeks ago, now:
THE Premier, Nathan Rees, has seconded the nephew of the former police minister Paul Whelan, Jack Whelan, into his office on a $262,651 a year salary.
Having boasted about cutting back on spin, axing media advisers and getting rid of the highly [...]
