Comments on: NSW Premier Morris Iemma resigns

By: Lucy

Lucy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Alex, nice job on the predictions. Why not quote yourself on Carmel Tebbutt while you’re at it? Something to do with how the fact that she’s married to Anthony Albanese would disqualify her after the Neal/Della fiasco? Which was kinda sexist the first time around and seems sillier the second?

By: col emanuel

col emanuel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

great day for sanity..this gives me a bit of faith ,that the unions still have a bit of sense and hopefully growing support. the sellouts in the labor party,like costa,iemma.and sator,are the best assets the greens have..

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Alex I did a blog you might be interested in about the return of Tebbutt fitting neatly with the on then off again smog stacks of the M4 East truck tunnel from Port Botany to Rozelle which would have poisoned Carmel's seat of Marrickville. I call this the Nathan factor - her 6 year old son, not the new premier created by same bail out from cabinet then return then broader spill with alot of help from Costa and energy assets.

Only one weakness in the scenario - didn't realise Costa had a blow up at Watkins presaging Watkins bailout. Seeing that pic of Costa with sugar free cola strutting around suggests to me the guy is on the rollercoaster of caffiene dependence let alone any other factors.

What seems so ironic to me is how so obviously the same things could have been said and done by Costa only with mild tones and gravitas and caused only 50% or less of the angst. He might still have got rolled too but not torn his own party so. To do so much wanton damage to his own party and colleagues cohesion is pretty sad. I think he'll live to regret it like Sir John Kerr.

By: DonR

DonR — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Great news! but will the new incumbents undo the high-handed actions of Sartor?

By: Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Evan - if Nathan Rees admitted to even a whiff of the antics in the Orkopoulos office he’d be back collecting garbage and keeping greens within the month. A lot of people had morning tea with Orkopoulos and thought he was a pretty good bloke too. And yes, it’s difficult to balance a clean career with the workplace particularly if it happens to be an MPs office. For years I covered up for a hapless Minister who like Milton landed in the clink. People such as Sneddon and I are simply asking political parties to grant MP staff immunity in cases such as Orkopoulos’. For some to be given Party protection and others the back door is not what working Australians expect from employers. It’s not what Rudd or Gillard are proposing either – unless it all blows up in their backyard.

By: JR

JR — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

NSW Labor have been waiting to implode, and now it is all starting. The inability of the State Government to deal with a range of issues from Health, to Education, to power sell-offs has been quite staggering. A change in the leadership is too late to overcome the endemic problems that exist.

The ALP control of the State Governments is about to come crashing down. Western Australia tomorrow, with the others to follow. Some very sad times ahead.

By: brucek

brucek — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

thanks alex for your consistent honesty against the delusional corporate spin - especially from SMH - all this year

it's nice for the workers to have a win against the neoliberal freaks

party at my place tonight!

By: Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Alex I’ll re-state some of my well-aired observations of Nathan Rees. As Milton Orkopoulos’ former chief of staff, Nathan Rees needs to answer some basic questions about what he knew about the child sex and drug crimes of his boss. As a former ministerial and MP staffer, you’d have to be a sandwhich short of a picnic not to grasp skewed discussions, behaviours and activities. Nathan’s leadership will last until Gillian Sneddon’s case unearths a few more worms in the rotting branches of NSW Labor.

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Nathan Rees has got the top job in NSW. He’s a pretty good bloke from what I’ve seen. I had morning tea with him about 12 months ago.

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Chris johnson,

Rees was on Stateline on Friday night and exactly those questions were put to him, and he summararily denied all allegations.