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The latest bi-monthly Newspoll result for New South Wales shows essentially no change on voting intention, but an improvement in Barry O’Farrell’s personal ratings, reports William Bowe.

State politics may prove a boon for Julia Gillard — look at Queensland’s troubled Coalition crew. But how much will the ghost of NSW Labor haunt Gillard, as ICAC continues?

Despite all the doom and gloom about the future of Labor in NSW, the party has the key ingredient to survive: robust financial health.

With control of the legislative assembly having been set in stone for many months now, the only doubtful aspect in tomorrow’s New South Wales election is the fate of the legislative council.

It’s a sexy world in NSW Labor politics, with everyone married to each other or old pals since school days. Tom Dusevic goes through the tricky family tree.

Less than a week before the axe falls in NSW, to the extent that the commencement of pre-polling at the start of this week hasn’t lowered it already. William Bowe offers local level intelligence from around the place.

William Bowe wraps the latest news and updates — from the latest Newspoll to where Greens preferences will be going — from the upcoming NSW election.

It’s always good to go to a political launch with very low expectations, and I was pleasantly surprised to find yesterday’s NSW Greens party launch not nearly as bad as I expected. Real policies were announced, Bob Brown was eloquent and passionate, and there were only a couple of the sort of cultish, quasi-religious moments that irritate the crap out of me.

Being a member of the NSW Labor Party is a fact many candidates aren’t making too public in their election campaigns, with several candidates in the Western Suburbs covering up the Labor logo on posters and leaving it off brochures, writes Anthony Brown.

William Bowe discusses the latest happenings from the slow-motion train wreck that is the New South Wales state election campaign, including the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Liberals to make inroads in the Newcastle/Hunter region.

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.

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.

There isn’t a whole lot of historical precedence for Australian federal governments coping with a hung parliament, but there certainly is amongst the states. Anne Twomey takes a fascinating look back at the 1910 NSW Labor government.

The NSW Labor government — led by Kristina Keneally, the Greens and the ACTU have formed a “united troika” against the Gillard government. But the NSW government is radioactive, says Paul Kelly.

One of the big questions post-election is whether ALP state party parliamentary performance impacted ALP results in the federal election. Possum Comitatus examines the data.

The latest NSW state Newspoll has the Labor government digging further below what previously looked to be rock bottom. The two-party preferred rose to 61-39 for the Coalition, writes William Bowe.

Dumped Robertson MP Belinda Neal has again refused to rule out running as an independent at this year’s federal election after Central Coast residents were push-polled over the prospect of a potential Neal solo tilt.

It is possible that, buried in some such dark and dusty place, there might be found details of a by-election defeat as bad for a major political party as the one suffered by New South Wales Labor in Penrith on Saturday.

Kristina Keneally is full of comedy gold in Question Time, like her jibes about the Opposition’s fashion sense. But with the state election set to be an ALP bloodbath, who’s laughing now? asks Sean Nicholls.

NSW has long been the epicentre of Australia’s growing crisis of housing undersupply. Belatedly, the NSW Government has produced some sensible policies to redirected demand and stimulate supply.