There is little about NSW Labor at present that offers cause for optimism about its regenerative capacities.
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Cavalier: How to destroy a Premier
The NSW Labor government has seen four premiers in just five years. Former NSW Education Minister Rodney Cavalier offers an insider account of the Nathan Rees and Morris Iemma downfalls.
Joe Ludwig’s dad shows the real campaign finance agenda
The Australian went back over a decade of returns from Labor Holdings Pty Ltd and concluded that this secretive Queensland investment arm has pumped $25 million into the ALP’s federal and state campaigns since 2000.
Matt Brown denies dancing in his jocks
In this morning’s Daily Tele, sacked NSW minister Matt Brown flatly denied previous claims by Nathan Rees that he danced in his underwear at a party at NSW Parliament in 2008. So who’s lying?
Pretty, articulate and a lost cause: Keneally repeats the Stott Despoja experiment
One look at new NSW Premier Kristina Keneally and ‘same horse, different jockey’ comes to mind: no policy changes, just a more friendly media face. No matter who leads it, the NSW ALP is heading for annihilation, says Andrew Clennell.
Tweet #fail: Keneally sucks at social media
So after fighting Nathan Rees for the @premierofnsw Twitter account, NSW Premier Kristina Keneally has deleted all tweets by Rees and is failing to use the account. Who’s even writing it?
Can Keneally breathe life into the NSW ALP corpse?
New NSW Premier Kristina Keneally is a desperately needed fresh female face for a dying NSW ALP, says Tony Smith. But while she reshuffles the front bench, is her political experience too inadequate to rebuild lost trust?
Premier Keneally: how the deal was done
The deal was done to keep the NSW premiership in the hands of the Left — and then Nathan Rees blew it, writes Joe Sammaras.
A Terrigal day for NSW
Nathan Rees may have been a bit of a disaster as NSW Premier, but he will be remembered fondly against a right faction powerslave like Kristina Keneally, writes Roger Hanney.
Keneally rolls Rees
Nathan Rees’ NSW premiership has come to an end following a 47-21 defeat in a party leadership vote by the right faction’s Kristina Keneally. Will it be third time lucky for the NSW ALP? asks William Bowe.
Political snippets: Nothing gracious in defeat here
No grace in defeat for Malcolm Turnbull, as he immediately turns to his personal blog. Plus, history’s most predictable coup in NSW, a honeymoon ended and big lies can work.
Arise, Premier Carmel Tebbutt, your hour is now
It now seems inevitable that deputy Premier Carmel Tebbutt will replace Nathan Rees. Her critics say she is likeable, lovely and limited. This seems to also reflect her assessment, writes NSW ALP Left insider Joe Sammaras.
A leadership spill in NSW?
The knives are out for another party leader, this time NSW Premier Nathan Rees, with a vote of no-confidence spearheaded by the Party’s right-wing likely to be issued today — unless Rees gets in first with a spill motion himself.
The NSW Right is a dead, dead duck
The flaming rage of neutered warlords and right-wing unions about their loss of influence within the NSW ALP will blow itself out, writes NSW ALP Left insider Joe Sammaras.
The NSW Left’s big weekend
Few party officials effortlessly wield as much power as seen at last weekend’s NSW ALP conference. It was Luke Foley’s conference, writes Joe Sammaras.
Clennell: Nathan Rees vs. the world
Nathan Rees’ “fresh approach” to government is already looking stale, say Andrew Clennell and Louise Hall, putting up a hostile front to critic, the media and fellow MPs as he continues to play party politics.
How Rees’ secret plot unfolded
Nathan Rees’ axing of ministers Joe Tripodi and Ian Macdonald was a carefully plotted and highly secretive affair, according to Labor insiders. The Tele reveals how it all unfolded “under the cover of darkness”. Straight out of Le Carré!
Clennell: Rees cuts out the cancer of the NSW ALP
Nathan Rees made a risky but necessary incision into the NSW ALP caucus yesterday, says Andrew Clennell, removing powerbrokers Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi. Whether the party’s factional fractures can really be cured is another question, though.
‘Stronger democracy’ gives way to strong-arm democracy in NSW
NSW government agencies will be collating the private data of NSW citizens and providing it to the NSW Electoral Commission to automatically update the electoral roll. There’ll be no opting out; you will have no choice.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Cardinal Pell’s climate sceptic pals
Cardinal George Pell makes friends with climate sceptics, the SMH’s new A-group, a conspiracy theory about the Bondi caveman, and is Christopher Pyne eying the leadership?
Deluded Della Bosca still wants the top job
It’s sadly obvious that John Della Bosca still wants the premier job, writes Andrew Clennell. Lucky for embattled leader Nathan Rees, Della Bosca has no chance and there are no other alternatives. Apart from Carmel Tebbutt…
Political snippets: Good news from China, bad news from Copenhagen
Some good news from China on the economy, but some bad news from Copenhagen on the prospect of positive outcomes from the Copenhagen climate change talks. And au revior to the Breakfast Media Wrap.
The long, long knifing of Nathan Rees
NSW premier Nathan Rees’ political death has been much reported, yet oddly slow to happen, writes Crikey intern Aaron Flanagan, with rumours as far back as January yet to bear fruit.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: The biennial ABC indigenous staff love-in
Will the ABC executive perform a “rap dance” (a “dance” presumably pronounced with a long a) as part of their ABC indigenous staff team building? At least there are no plastic chains this year.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Old athletes jeer for Rees
Nathan Rees got a chilly reception at the World Masters Games Opening Ceremony on Sunday night, things are going from bad to worse at Airservices Australia, playing games with Chevron and more hot tips from Crikey folk.
