Tony Nutt

The Labor rout in Victoria is an undoubted victory for the Liberals, even though there was a possibility they would yet again come in second. It was at very least a huge morale boost.

They said we'd never make it… Picture: Andrew Brownbill

Julia Gillard will end 2010 with one Labor bastion being pulled down and will start 2011 with the destruction of another —the NSW Government in March. Tony Abbott’s Liberals will have the momentum going their way. Well at least in a parallel fashion. The Victorian election was about state issues, and was not a federal test.

There was another boost for the Liberals, and that was the performance of their Victorian director, Tony Nutt, the former John Howard trooper and once the party director in NSW.

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  • Spiros says:

    03:33am | 03/12/10

    You go console yourself with that hackneyed conventional wisdom. Read more »

  • Spiros says:

    03:31am | 03/12/10

    No real reforms. Ha. How about Keating’s hopelessly botched deregulation of the banking sector? Capital gains tax? Endless deficits? Clunky imputation scheme? His meddling in monetary policy (he used to brag about it, too)? The guy who ran against Fightback? Yeah, that guy! Read more »

 

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