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You can’t make this stuff up: NATHAN REES will announce the most comprehensive overhaul of the public service in decades by merging 160 government agencies into 13 super-departments – but no one will lose their job and he is not planning to axe any of the agencies. Mr Rees will face accusations he squibbed major [...]

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 [...]

Publicly, former NSW premier Morris Iemma might be a happy house husband taking things easy in his post-politics life. But there is another Morris Iemma the one that is pestering Sydney journalists with his campaign to oust Nathan Rees and install former planning minister Frank Sartor. Iemma’s calls are so frequent and so purposeful that [...]

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. [...]

Eight senior Australian economists have written to Prime Minister Rudd suggesting, among other things, an immediate reduction of the compulsory contribution rate from 9% to 6% followed by a gradual doubling to 12% in the years between 1 July 2010 and 1 July 2015.  An increase to 12% (or even 15%) is a worthy idea [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nathan Rees really does come up with some corkers. We’ve had the black panthers and the love and traffic episodes and now he says we’re all a bit down in the dumps: The Premier said he believed Sydney was “demoralised” and he wanted to “turn that around”. If Sydney is demoralised, the ALP Government of [...]