State Politics
Given we don’t have an official national dance, I would like to nominate one. Let’s call it ‘the Election Day Waltz’. It has a few tricky steps, then a big finale that always ends up the same way.
New NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell was doing the dance this week. First the light steps through the campaign: ‘there will be no public sector job cuts, there will be no cuts to services’, up there on his tippy toes all grace and poise.
Then he lands with a thud. The day after the election he ‘discovers’ a ‘budget black hole’ and he starts stomping around on the very workers and services he was reassuring just days ago.
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Within weeks, South Australians will have a clear idea of who will replace Premier Mike Rann before the 2014 state election.
It’s a race between Employment Minister Jack Snelling and Attorney-General John Rau - both ministerial cleanskins with with less than a year’s experience in the ministry.
Both men are jostling to take over the role of Deputy Premier which the incumbent Kevin Foley is set to step down from when he returns in three weeks from a defence industry trip to the US.
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anti mike rann says:
what a joke why put snelling in he couldnt get speed bumps on are road due to dangerous driving and bassically parmed it off to nothing Read more »
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GManderson says:
Ah yes. 60s SA. Halcyon days, eh Smissen. Let’s see if we can just fine tune your wonky old memory a bit. bzzt skweek xxt sst zzzt ah hah, got it on the old rotary tuner! Back to 60’s SA then. The 60s. When archaic pub laws saw the disgusting… Read more »
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