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.
NSW ALP
NSW Newspoll: ALP takes another hiding
The latest NSW Newspoll has Labor’s primary vote down 4 points to 26%, the Coalition up 2 to 44% and the Greens vaulting 5 to an unprecedented 17%, reports William Bowe.
Sheehan: Get ‘em in and spit ‘em out: the media churn of politics
Leadership speculation! Spill! New leader! Opinion Polls! Scandal! Rather than focusing on policies, Australian politics is an endless horse race with the media as jockey and lots of blood being spilt, writes Paul Sheehan.
Total recall in NSW
The SMH has started a petition to demand an early election in NSW. Err, it’s not quite that simple, explains William Bowe.
SMH launch a petition to boot the NSW ALP out
The NSW government is stuffed, says the Sydney Morning Herald, and we need to change our constitution and have an early election to get this farce of a government out of office.
Proposal to boost Snowy flow blocked by ALP powerbroker
NSW ALP powerbroker Ian Macdonald has headed off an attempt to remove one of the biggest impediments to a healthier Snowy River.
Keneally: the developer loving ventriloquist dummy
New NSW Premier Kristina Keneally puts her core political promise as social justice. Does that apply to the hundreds of building approvals she ticked for developers who also donate hundreds of thousands to the ALP?
Crikey Says: The party puppeteers pulling all the strings
A fascinating feature of last week’s political killing season — a Premier and a federal Opposition Leader gunned down over three blood-spilling days — was the role of the Tripodi, Obeid and Minchin as sneaky puppeteers.
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?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Why Crikey is “Tebbutt” of the joke
Crikey readers get angry over our coverage of recent NSW politics, and also blast the Greens, Westpac… and each other.
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.
Give it a go, Joe: try out for the NSW Premier gig
Joe Hockey’s credentials for the top job in federal politics are fairly limited and took a battering this week — but he’d make a fine State Premier.
The Keneally first that is really a third!
Apart from Anna Bligh, the ALP has only put women into top jobs to do political housecleaning. Once again, a woman has been brought in to sort the mess and change the atmospherics for an ALP state administration in trouble.
Meet NSW’s first female Premier
Who is Kristina Keneally, the new female Premier of NSW? American, a feminist and a creature of the Right, she’s been in parliament just six years. What’s she really like?
He Who Must Be Obeid
Eddie Obeid is one of the most despised politicians in New South Wales — he’s also the most powerful. Kate MsClymont looks at how he and off-sider Joe Tripodi maintain their “vice-like hold” over the party, despite repeated controversies.
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’s premiership is already tainted
New NSW Premier Kristina Keneally begins her reign with the stench of Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi hanging overhead, says Andrew West. It will be a true test of her leadership to see if she can overcome it.
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.
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 Right strikes back, Stalin recalled
The ALP national executive’s decision yesterday to include Macquarie in its regime of central preselection impositions has sparked a wave of dissent from waring factions in the premier state.
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!
