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Is Phil Koperberg right about the nature of politics?

08 Oct 12:30pm

Filed under: Alp, Labor Party, Nsw, Phil Koperberg, Politics

NSW has today lost yet another former minister - but this time he didn’t get caught with his pants down or his hand in the cookie jar.

Former rural fire chief Phil Koperberg jumped out of the frying pan into the fire of the NSW ALP.

Phil Koperberg, the former NSW rural fire commissioner who was drafted into the ALP at the last state election, said he just can’t take the factional infighting anymore and was surprised how hard it was to get anything done in government.

“I might be naive but I’m not stupid,” Koperberg said, as he announced he wouldn’t contest the next poll in March 2011.

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Jim says:

11:52am | 11/10/10

Badger says “Your observation about 4 corners leads me to believe you were watching a different 4 corners to the rest of us”. You have your opinions mate, I respect that, though it appears you do not respect opinions that differ from your party spin. But don’t for one single… Read more »
Reg says:

03:24pm | 10/10/10

You slid across an interesting detail there AdamC. In my experience Union members are not all Labor supporters and “Union bearpits” require more than the average discretion from those who would be leaders. Not at all like the right-wing club where the biggest mongrel gets to take control, rather than… Read more »

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