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For too long now the NSW Government has been grossly attacked for not having achieved anything.

Party time, excellent ..Photo: Nicholas Welsh.

Even I myself was once part of the baying hordes who cruelly and unfairly accused the 16-year-old administration of leaving no great timeless accomplishments as a legacy for this great state.

But then this weekend I realised that NSW Labor had achieved something no other government of either persuasion has managed to do - not just in this state, nor the country, but the entire world.

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  • Edward James says:

    05:09pm | 01/02/11

    The really sad thing is voters feel they can wander down to the ballot box cast a vote and forget about it for another four years. Our job is to keep after these politicians like training a good cattle dog make them understand they respond to our will not the… Read more »

  • Tigger says:

    03:55pm | 01/02/11

    Public servants. I kid you not. When I was contracting there, they were all hoping that labor gets back in otherwise they will lose their jobs. Read more »

 

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