Nsw Right

The man most likely to lead the NSW Labor Opposition is the man least equipped to bring the party together after the richly-deserved caning it endured on Saturday.

Former sparky John Robertson is a likeable knockabout who comes across as the embodiment of old-style Labor values. The fact that he is a decent person does not alter the fact that he’s been pivotal in some of the most politically indecent acts the state of News South Wales has ever seen, starting with the unprecedented dumping of a party leader, shortly after he’d been returned by the voters in a gutsy and unlikely election victory.

Whatever old-style Labor values he claims to represent were rendered transparent by this act of bastardry and the subsequent chaos it unleashed. 

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Let’s face it: What Paul McLeay’s done isn’t the worst thing in the world. It isn’t even the worst thing in the NSW Government.

The now former minister was summarily shafted—an activity with which he is apparently familiar—by Premier Kristina Keneally after being busted looking at porn and gambling on his parliamentary computer.

There is no question that his behaviour was stratospherically stupid, but again, these days that is more a pre-requisite for getting into Cabinet than being booted out of it.

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Writing more in sorrow than anger, a web reader going by the pseudonym Denny Crane, after the politically incorrect anti-hero of the brilliant program Boston Legal, posted a comment this week which epitomised the sense of despair which many in Sydney feel about the management of this town.

“You know, ten years ago we had the 2000 Olympics. The best Olympics ever. A world class performance by a State at the top of its game. Sydney in that first week was magic and the second was not far behind. The world looked at Sydney and NSW and applauded. And who gave it to us, apart from ourselves? NSW State Labor. And now look at NSW Labor. If you want to know how far NSW Labor and the infrastructure of this State have destructed, just compare 2000 with 2010. God, we were good then, but now… “

This fair and balanced comment rung true with me, having moved to Sydney in 1999 to cover NSW state politics, and still being able to feel a buzz at remembering the euphoria and joy and pride of being a resident of one the greatest cities on earth, at one of the greatest moments in its history.

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