Barry O’Farrell
Crikey
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Monday, 6 June 2011
This weekend the norms of NSW parliamentary procedure were put to the test with a total of more than 29 hours of debate and the first use of the “guillotine” rule to cut off debate since 1906, writes David Mallard, lecturer, political analyst and blogger.
A State of Mind
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Thursday, 2 June 2011
There’s no doubt graffiti is a serious subject, but new and harsher penalties announced by Barry O’Farrell stretch the courts capacity and are unnecessarily linked to drivers licenses and demerit points, writes Mr Tiedt.
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011
For Barry O’Farrell to just throw the local NSW solar industry under the bus is a public policy meltdown, writes Simon Mansfield from SolarDaily.com.
Crikey
/ Glenn Dyer
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Thursday, 28 April 2011
Barry O’Farrell’s bombastic claims that Labor ”cooked the books” to cover up a $4.5 billion hole in the state’s finances are wrong many times over.
Crikey
/ Bernard Keane
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Friday, 15 April 2011
The hysteria over electricity price rises ignores that even after years of big rises, power bills haven’t kept pace with income growth.
Crikey
/ Charles Richardson
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Friday, 8 April 2011
With Labor having lost 60% of its lower house seats, the upper house inevitably takes a greater weight in the parliamentary party.
Crikey
/ Stephen Mayne
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Thursday, 31 March 2011
Despite all the doom and gloom about the future of Labor in NSW, the party has the key ingredient to survive: robust financial health.
Crikey
/ Patrick Baume
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Wednesday, 30 March 2011
The new premier of NSW neck and neck with the PM on media mentions this week after he snuck over the line by 25 seats and the Labor Party immediately fell into the self-obsessed infighting that largely got them to this position in the first place.
Crikey
/ Glenn Dyer
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011
The reports on Barry O’Farrell’s $4.5 billion black holes are a load of statistical noise and rubbish.
Crikey
/ Margot Saville
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Monday, 28 March 2011
On a election day with a entirely predictable outcome, it was great to live in an electorate where your vote actually counted. By 6.30pm, I’d heard all the conspiracy theories and so headed off to the Randwick Labor Club to wait for Kristina.
Crikey
/ William Bowe
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Monday, 28 March 2011
There is little about NSW Labor at present that offers cause for optimism about its regenerative capacities.
Crikey
/ Bernard Keane
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Monday, 28 March 2011
Barry O’Farrell has secured the perfect victory over a Labor Party in denial. But even so, the window for major reform is small.
Crikey
/ Matthew Knott
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Monday, 28 March 2011
Parramatta Leagues Club is oversized and soulless, an eyesore reliant on profits from booze and poker machines to stay afloat (just like Labor?). Yet it was the perfect place for the Tories to celebrate the biggest defeat of a government in history.
Crikey
/ Charles Richardson
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Monday, 28 March 2011
O’Farrell already looks uncomfortable in spouting Abbott’s command-and-control carbon policies, and the tensions will get more pronounced as he takes on the mantle of Australia’s senior elected Liberal.
Crikey
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Monday, 28 March 2011
The O’Farrell government’s first budget is likely to contain some tough measures aimed at guarding the state’s triple-A rating, writes Karen Maley, of Business Spectator.
Crikey
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Friday, 25 March 2011
Well, here we all are then. Election eve. This is it. The end of 16 years of Labor rule.
Crikey
/ Matthew Knott
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Friday, 25 March 2011
In theory, tomorrow’s NSW state election should be the Greens’ finest political hour.
Crikey
/ William Bowe
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Friday, 25 March 2011
There remains an assumption that things can’t possibly be as bad for Labor as some of the polls have predicted, and that a latent sympathy vote awaits to be absorbed by them. I suspect this is a misreading of the public mood.
Crikey
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Thursday, 24 March 2011
Life under Barry O’Farrell’s premiership is upon the citizens of NSW. As they witness the changing of the guard, what brave new world can they expect? Candace Sutton examines the difficult transition of people and power.
Crikey
/ Charles Richardson
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Thursday, 24 March 2011
The New South Wales election is likely to be one that you will tell your grandchildren about.
Crikey
/ Bernard Keane
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011
NSW voters are waiting for Labor with something a lot bigger than a baseball bat, according to Essential’s final poll. The party is set for a truly shocking performance in Sydney, where it is on just 20% primary vote.
Crikey
/ Matthew Knott
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Come Monday, NSW opposition leader Barry O’Farrell will be one of the most powerful men in Australia. But when it comes to his policy platform, many voters don’t know and don’t care what’s on the table. Crikey examines the pitch.
Crikey
/ Charles Richardson
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Sydney’s suburbs, more than those of the other capitals, tend to divide quite sharply between the rich and the poor.
Crikey Blogs
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Only a few more days before the long-awaited NSW election — and the assumed bollocking of the NSW Labor party. William Bowe collects the latest news and election updates.
Crikey
/ Matthew Knott
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Throughout the NSW election campaign Kristina Keneally has taunted Barry O’Farrell for refusing to submit his policy costings to the parliamentary budget office. The premier promised voters all Labor’s policies would be submitted for analysis and that they would not force the budget into deficit.
O’Farrell’s crack-down on graffiti is a spray on stop-gap
NSW election minus 3 days
