Governments are elected to govern and provide public services funded by taxpayer revenue, investments and borrowing, not to keep the books in surplus for the benefit of Wall Street, writes Alex Mitchell.
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Daily Tele s-xes up NSW politics
Just when you thought the media’s silly season was over, the Daily Telegraph rises to the occasion, writes Alex Mitchell.
John Robertson as NSW Premier won’t happen
If you believe The SMH and The Australian, NSW Premier Nathan Rees will be gone by the end of the year and replaced by John Robertson, writes Alex Mitchell.
Sydney nightlife: plastic cups and no shots after midnight
The plastic cup rules are part of a new wave of nanny state regulations around drinking recently introduced by embattled new Premier Nathan Rees, writes Nicholas Pickard.
Taxpayers foot the bill for neglected historic houses
At a time when some NSW hospitals can’t afford to buy bandages for their patients there are some areas of the bureaucracy where money is no object, writes Ian Evans.
NSW, the premier state: for unemployment, dysfunction …
Yesterday’s news of a fall in retail sales in NSW in the September quarter points to the extraordinarily serious problems the NSW economy currently faces, writes Bernard Keane.
DGs fall like flies as Ridout fears a Rees recession
To lose one director-general may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness, writes Alex Mitchell.
Premier Rees screwed from above
NSW Premier Nathan Rees must now know what it is like to be screwed from above with yesterday’s news dominated by the revelation that an illegal brothel sits on top of his electorate office, writes Chris Seage.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government, Richard Farmer writes.
Rees driving NSW government into the ground
Rarely do you get the opportunity to see a government disintegrate before your eyes. In NSW, we’ve already seen one this year and now we’re watching a second, writes Alex Mitchell.
Bye bye Troglodyte Minister for Science
Tony Stewart cast himself as vigilante crime-buster, fugitive from hired killers, undercover cop and all-round action hero, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Premier’s mini-budget is a mega-spin
Laughably, Premier Nathan Rees’s NSW Government is calling it a “mini-budget”, It’s more like a MEGA budget, writes Alex Mitchell.
Drink, drive: bloody member of parliament
Here’s a list of our lead-foot and sozzled lawmakers who lost points, licences and credibility as menaces on our roads, writes Chris Johnson.
NSW troglodyte suspended
Small Business, Science and Medical Research Minister Tony Stewart has been suspended following a staffer’s official complaint that he verbally abused her, writes Alex Mitchell.
Sydney’s Metro Line goes down the gurgler
The train standing on platform 1 is the Labor Government special service to electoral oblivion. It will be leaving at the state election in March 2011, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Labor swears in Rt Hon “Robbo” MLC
For the first time in recent memory, the ALP’s Sussex Street machine seems to have chosen a parliamentarian of substance and ability, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW top bureaucrat quits with fatigue
Oops. NSW Pemier Nathan Ress has just lost Robyn Kruk, the Director-General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, the State’s most powerful bureaucrat, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Planning Minister faces Currawong challenge
The newly-chosen NSW Planning Minister Kristina Keneally is facing the first big test of her ambitious rise in Labor’s hierarchy, writes Alex Mitchell.
V8 promoters overtake NSW’s L-plate Premier
As NSW Premier Nathan Rees jumps into bed with AVESCO, the Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company, to bring car racing to the streets of Sydney Olympic Park, he should buckle the seat belt for a rough ride, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW infrastructure tzar takes his revenge on Rees
David Richmond has walked out of the $300,000-a-year job as NSW Coordinator General after just 18 months, writes Alex Mitchell.
Petrol heads take gold at Sydney Olympic Park
The decision to introduce car racing from December next year represents a monumental failure of policy by the Labor Government which has now been in office in NSW for 13 and a half years, writes Alex Mitchell.
Rees and Orkopoulos: how much did the premier know?
There is growing evidence that only a wilful act of ignorance would have prevented Labor figures from knowing there were serious allegations about Milton Orkopoulos circulating, 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.
Sydney media finds new hate figure — Premier Rees
Nathan Rees appears to have committed the cardinal sin of not asking Fairfax and News Ltd if he could have their permission to become premier, writes Alex Mitchell.
Rees has Arts NSW staff dancing in the hallways
Arts NSW staff were practically dancing in the hallways naked yesterday with the announcement that new NSW Premier Nathan Rees had taken over the state’s arts portfolio, writes Nicholas Pickard.
