Unprecedented? Kennett (92) and Bracks (02) say hello for bigger wins than Andrews’ last year.
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True. *Unexpected (the extent) then
The NSW voting system of optional preferential voting being shown here. More than half of the voters in Goulburn only put 1 on the ballot paper.
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Tonight’s NSW election results shows Labor still has a lot of work to do if it is to topple the Coalition at the upcoming federal election. However, the voters have also sent a warning to the Coalition about its overspending on major infrastruture projects and delays.
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Successive NSW governments underspent on infrastructure for decades. Both Labor and Liberal axed projects. The axed Epping to Parramatta train line, axed city to inner west metro line and the failure to fully duplicate the Richmond line are prime examples. The last couple of governments have at least started multiple major projects, rail and road. I don’t like the idea of the metro lines, but at least they are being built.
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Well we’re here now, so let’s do this! 
Before we go any further though, it has to be pointed out that I don’t have any strong preferences towards any political party because if we’re being realistic, they all have their flaws. The last few years of a NSW Labor government and the party leaders they’ve had since weren’t exactly great, while there are also flaws to be found with The Greens (some of their policies are just completely unrealistic, even if their stance on environmental issues is generally quite good) and the other minor parties on both sides of the spectrum.
Mainly because Gladys Berejiklian is not a very good politician (IIRC she was an appalling transport minister, much like Andrew Constance is/has been recently) although to be fair, she’s only continuing the damage that both Barry O’Farrell & Mike Baird helped start.
NSW Labor really needed a leader who wasn’t afraid to go harder on more controversial issues such as the lockout laws & pill testing rather than solely focusing on the stadiums. If they plan to be around for the next four years and more, I really hope Penny Sharpe or Jodi McKay will eventually become the party leader. Either of those two would probably be really good, I think.
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How do you figure?
NSW election featured an unknown opposition leader who stumbled all through the campaign and had few original policies. Completely different situation federally where the opposition leader has been the same for five years and there’s a clear policy difference between the the major parties.
I agree with ABC’s Brigid Glanville - there will be serious questions about Daley’s leadership, and rightly so. He does not have leadership potential and should be dumped. Let someone new have three or four years to get a name and some policies up and running.
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Will Liberals and Scott Morrison now beat Labor and Bill Shorten come TBA I wonder?
This.
For many people in NSW, Labor still has a bad image which is struggling to shake off of.
I wouldn’t go as far as saying that Scott Morrison still has a chance of winning the Federal Election just because NSW voted their Coalition state government back in though.
There have been a number of occasions over the years when NSW state politics hasn’t reflected the trends of federal politics at the time. The Berejiklian-lead Coalition NSW Government being voted back in at a time it seems Bill Shorten may become our next prime minister is all but one of them.
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At a state level, sure, but not federally.
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NSW politics, and soon federal politics, summed up by the cast of Drawn Together
NSW Premier then Prime Minister?
Yesterday, he announced that he would stand aside from his role as NSW Opposition Leader until the leadership ballot is conducted after the federal election. Now, he’s decided not to run at all.
It would be hard for him to live down those comments he made which were released in the last week. He’d be haunted by them forever.
Because he hasn’t been that well known as Leader of the Opposition I think it will fade with time. Others have weathered storms and moved on.
Disgruntled members of Fred Nile’s Christian Democratic Party have staged an attempted coup that aims to remove Nile and the rest of the NSW party’s board. Party president Rev Dr Ross Clifford, formerly of 2CH, said that the board was ambushed at a meeting on the weekend and he adjourned the meeting when the disgruntees tried to force for a vote on a no confidence motion.
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Former Victorian government minister Phillip Dalidakis today resigned as an upper house MP, effective immediately, to take up a new job at Australia Post as executive general manager of corporate services.
Three months after the NSW Election, we’ve finally got a new Labor/Opposition Leader: Member for Strathfield Jodi McKay, most recently known for her time as Opposition Transport Minister and in the more distant past (this is a media forum afterall) as a former NBN Newsreader.
The decision to appoint McKay (who I think will probably do a good job) as their new leader has resulted in New South Wales having female leaders on both sides of politics for the first time ever if I’m not mistaken.
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