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The latest polls point to an Illawarra-wide swing against Labor of 21% from a margin of error of about 2.2%. William Bowe introduces his New South Wales election guide, covering five electorates, from Heathcote to Kiama.

Finally, someone has injected a bit of testosterone into the NSW election campaign.

With the NSW election coming up on March 26, there will no doubt be plenty of attention paid to the so-called ethnic vote.

New South Wales Labor Party members have been told to zero in on federal election issues as the party prepares for a wipe-out in the lead-up to the March 26 poll.

A leader like Kristina Keneally searches desperately for the trick that might enable her to pull off such an unlikely comeback. Her move yesterday, however, to apologise for Labor’s past mistakes, is not it.

Saying sorry is a pretty strange way to kick off a re-election campaign.

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally’s decision to defer the sale of the second tranche of the state’s electricity assets may be an embarrassing backdown – but that doesn’t mean it isn’t smart politics.

Women in politics — a series of headlines.

Explosive testimony at a parliamentary inquiry into the privatisation of NSW electricity assets has revealed that the original $5.3 billion profit promised by the Keneally Government was a gross over-estimate.

Court summons will be issued this week in a bid to force the eight former directors who quit in protest over the privatisation of NSW electricity assets to appear before an upper house inquiry into the controversial sell off, writes Mathew Knott.

If voters can’t trust their government to give them the full story how can they trust them enough to vote them back into power? That’s the question that the Keneally government faces in light of the extraordinary events in NSW since parliament was prorogued in December.

Life’s just one big blur for John “Robbo” Robertson, the man most likely to be NSW’s next Opposition leader. But as NSW Labor hurtles towards oblivion, at least he is the one member of cabinet smiling all the way to the car crash, writes Candace Sutton.

Having studied test results, the OECD reached the conclusion that school systems considered successful tend to prioritise teachers’ pay over smaller classes.

A Morgan phone poll in NSW state politics has Labor on 22 per cent of the primary vote, the Coalition on 53 per cent and the Greens on 13.5 per cent, with the Coalition’s two-party lead at 65-35, reports William Bowe.

NSW Labor is a death star and the Premier’s final undoing will be the reactor at its core — the state’s electricity privatisation plan, writes Candace Sutton.