There is nothing that can be said to defend this government. Ree’s and his government are an embarassment and a basket case and should do the right thing and hold an election so somebody can get on with the job of governing the biggest state in Australia.

I am not a Sydneysider nor a resident from the NSW but it is appalling to watch.

Can that train wreck be brought forward? Perhaps a Railcorp employee can arrange it … for the right “fee”, of course.

Interesting Bernard,

You seem to see everything through a prism of the Canberra Press gallery and your own personal political biases. perhaps you should try looking at the big picture here.

Its not about getting Rudd re-elected, nor about salvaging the NSW Labour party, which is truly beyond rescue.

It is about replacing the current group of inept party hacks and getting the nation’s largest and most populous state back to where it should be, which is delivering the contribution to the national economy that it is capable of.

NSW has a contribution to national GDP larger than SA, Tasmania and the NT combined, in fact Western Sydney alone is a bugger contributor to the Nation’s wealth than South Australia. The contribution by NSW should be even greater, but for a generation of squandered wealth and opportunity under the current incumbents.

The NSW Liberal-National coalition may not be the best alternative government available, but they will come in with a pile of goodwill to try and fix things, and deserve that opportunity.

The Labour party in NSW deserves the opprobrium that is coming its way. Similar to what was doled out to to Keating at his last election but on a much larger (but equally much more personal) scale, the electorate is desperately looking forward to taking the baseball bats to this hopelessly inept government, delivering a god-almighty mugging for the damage done to this state.

If the current opposition under O’Farrell screws things up, then the electorate will be equally savage on them as well, but the current incumbents in Governor Macquarie Tower need to be shown the door, and I am sure that Rudd , a canny politician, wants nothing associating his name with the long-anticipated train wreck that will arrive in 2011.

It joins the dots of big media coverage but way not sufficient too. Last week’s tendentious leadership fantasy play in the big media put’s that in perspective.

Where to start on this self basting Canberra condescension/patronising superiority clagged full of federal tax dollars on the big drip?

1. Rees didn’t come from nowhere. Policy adviser in Carr’s office, stood up to Laurie Ferguson factionalism to take Toongabbie, delivered an broadly unpopular but business union favoured $2B desal plant. And no I don’t vote Labor!

Having buried that nonesense what’s next?

2. In a system of rule of law, Orkopolous matter is over. The rest like most of the article and the comments is gratuitious calculated to achieve not very much.

3. The fact Rees is Premier from the Left is not chaotic happenstance. A fair degree of it revolves around Tebbut declining the job - and why: The (far) Right are set on a $5B truck tunnel from Port Botany to M4 East. The smog stacks for that will be …. in Marrickville/Grayndler (state/federal respectively). Tebbutt will lose her seat to the Greens.

In effect Rees is there because of The Greens. Tebbutt is not too because of The Greens. God bless them. I lived 4 years just within the 400 m of the M5 East cancer smog stack and am still recovering my health it seems 3 years later. The GFC has made Tripodi and Right wing mega port visision a tragic joke, and exposed their woeful planning of urban transport portage which according to all decent logic should be out of the main city - Freemantle is to Perth anyone? Port Kembla? Newcastle?

Now Rees is back into the fray in the face of News Corp wet lettuce dressed up as page 1 blow torch (thankyou fractured web media age) he appears to have thrown a dogs a bone - pushing for M4 East again.

So here we go again - another NSW Inc classic - feed the business/union crocodiles our tax dollars to keep your govt job. And against Rees’s own generational instincts. Only he is an ambitious type, and as your story and comments indicate ‘power corrupts’. And NSW is corrupt.

No wonder Dempster is girding his ex Joh Fitzgerald rhetorical loins on Stateline recently. The thing about political corruption - it’s hard to believe until you actually see in front of your face. It’s quite a shock. Even worse when it infects your own social networks say in lefty areas of the inner west or green movement.

Not to be spoken of, god forbid. And on it goes, but Rees is tough, that much is clear.

I don’t get it.

Who did you have in mind? Max the Axe?

If I were Kevin Rudd, I’d head into NSW Labor HQ with a large batch of chloroform and have the whole lot (except for perhaps Carmel Tebbutt) shipped off quietly into the night to be never heard of again. I’d then stick a tie on Australia’s first cat Jasper, and call a press conference announcing the new Premier, because I can guarantee Jasper would probably do a better job, and get more votes than Labor or Liberal put together.

It’s always ironic too to hear Bob Carr spruiking the agenda of the increasingly right wingnut Australian newspaper to put the kibosh on a federal charter of rights, with the assurance that our democracy and elected representatives are there to serve and protect their rights and interests.

Ummm. Taking one look at NSW, I don’t think I need to expend the energy to debunk that argument.

The guy is an automaton programmed by Labor HQ. I wrote him off ages ago when he said that if he knew that his former boss, Milton the Octopus, was engaging in acts of pedophilia he would have “frog marched him to the nearest police station”.

Sure Nathan, that’s exactly what Labor “advisers” do.

NSW Labor is now beyond a joke. They are the rancid remains of a government that was already on the nose when Carr smelled the wind and shot through.

I’m not saying that the Libs have any talent, but they will know how to open the windows and pump the stink current out. Another familiar stink will naturally arise over time, but I would love a year or two without it.

Frank Sartor is the ONLY ONE that will give NSW Labor ANY chance at the next election.

Not so much. Frank Sartor has consistently polled well below Nathan Rees and even Kristina Keneally. He was frittered away what goodwill he did have on entering Parliament by his arrogant behaviour and developer-friendly policy decisions as Minister for Planning. The Part 3A sledgehammer was his baby.

The lamentable extent of the decay and debasement of government policy development and delivery in NSW is outlined by Beverley Kingston in an opinion piece in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. Anyone who has been involved in a community campaign, or followed an issue closely in the media, can vouch for everything Beverley Kingston writes.

And contra Bernard Keene, the experience in NSW is that a party in power federally, does just fine with the other party in power in NSW. Most recently, the Greiner/Fahey coalition government in NSW overlapped with the Hawke/Keating government. While the Bob Carr ALP era overlapped with the Howard ascendancy federally.

The further that Kevin Rudd distances himself and the federal ALP from the NSW ALP, the more successful he will be.

Somehow I don’t think our founding fathers though of that possibility when framing the constitution. Oh well.