Essential Report: Labor’s lead narrowsThis week’s Essential Report comes in with the primaries running 49 (down 3) / 35 (up 3) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 59/41 the same way.
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Top NSW cop lashes at Joe Tripodi
Clive Small, former Assistant Commissioner of the NSW Police, has delivered a stinging criticism of Finance Minister Joe Tripodi in his new book, writes Alex Mitchell.
This is no time for playing Senatorial politics
Voters are looking to the Government for action and the opposition had better not get in the way, writes Bernard Keane.
The NSW Labor party implodes
The NSW Labor Party, long-described as the “natural party of government” in the premier state, has self-destructed under a tsunami of broken promises, scandals, incompetence and factional warfare, writes Alex Mitchell.
How close did WA Nats come to falling in with Labor?
How close did the WA Nationals really come to an historic deal to keep Labor in government? asks Poll bludger William Bowe.
