Last weekend in Balmain we had a whole new scandal to discuss — Michael McGurk and any links to the ALP. Although the standover man and his cohorts are not locals, the aftershocks from his shooting quickly spread.
NSW Labor Government
Askin era in NSW wasn’t only about corruption
It is fraudulent of the NSW Labor Party to insist repeatedly that the late NSW Premier Sir Robert Askin led a government that did nothing more than shuffle brown paper bags full of SP money.
Newspoll: 53-47 to Coalition in NSW
The latest bi-monthly NSW state Newspoll shows the Labor government continuing to narrow the gap after the post-mini-budget blowout.
Minister Joe Tripodi and top bureaucrat at 10 paces
The political dysfunction at the centre of the NSW Government now involves a stand-off between the Infrastucture Minister Joe Tripodi and the Infrastructure Coordinator-General Bob Leece.
Call to modernise NSW ALP grows desperate
The bureaucracy in Sussex Street, by its very nature, is impervious to change.
Tips and rumours: A new logo for NSW?
Is there a better way to bust a recession that pay a design team squillions to come up with a new logo?
Rees minus Tripodi and Obeid, equals a healed NSW ALP
Nathan Rees will continue to flounder as NSW Premier until he sacks his Finance Minister Joe Tripodi and empties ALP faction boss Eddie Obeid out of the upper house, writes Alex Mitchell.
Queensland gives hope to the hopeless
The ALP has won a lot of elections in the last decade, but few of them have confounded expectations as much as Saturday’s victory in Queensland, writes Charles Richardson.
Babcock & Brown political donations will be missed
When the helium-driven investment bank Babcock & Brown collapsed into the arms of the administrator last Friday, the major political parties lowered their flags to half mast, writes Alex Mitchell.
GEO joins NSW privatised jail race
John Robertson is following in the former Treasurer’s footsteps by implementing the private management of jails in flagrant opposition to NSW Labor Party policy, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW spin doctors find another frog to save
Whenever there is a controversial development, the NSW Government spin doctors reach into their top drawer and produce a frog yarn, writes Alex Mitchell.
Ethics of NSW MPs — annual reports a joke
The annual reports of the Parliamentary Ethics Adviser of the NSW Parliament have been tabled and each report is typed on less than two pages of foolscap paper, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW MP caught in jail privatisation conflict
Can the Public Service Association “comrades” union expect tireless support from Paul McLeay, their former deputy general secretary? Asks Alex Mitchell.
Premier Rees’ latest recruits offer new hope
The cavalry has arrived to provide some relief for the besieged Nathan Rees Government in the form of Graham Wedderburn and Bob Leece, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW mafia stains Labor and Liberal alike
The overnight decision by the AFP to re-investigate donations to the Liberal Party by colourful characters with alleged Italian Mafia links is like an unguided Exocet missile.
Botany Bay car park doomed
The outrageous proposal by Rockdale City Council to build a 100-vehicle car park on the beachfront of Botany Bay has been scrapped, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Planning Minister Keneally romperstomps
NSW Planning Minister Kristina Keneally has trampled over community objections in two major development approvals this week , writes Alex Mitchell.
Reward: Plum jobs for wrecking bureaucratic disaster
Three NSW government asylum seekers have fled the scene of the crime and been rewarded with salary packages worth more than $300,000 in Canberra, writes Alex Mitchell.
Cherie Burton MP, Part Three: From tireless to exhausted
While Cherie Burton may be hyper-active in the high streets and back streets of the electorate, her performance in parliament has been lamentable, writes Alex Mitchell.
Cherie Burton MP part two: Sussex to Macquarie St
Ms Burton’s entire career has been as a factional player in NSW ALP politics, writes Alex Mitchell.
Newcastle TV reader’s dazzling ministerial rise
The meteoric parliamentary career of Jodi McKay, the Labor MP for Newcastle, continues to amaze her caucus colleagues in Macquarie Street, writes Alex Mitchell.
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.
Meagher’s evidence blows Newman case wide open
Evidence from Reba Meagher casts a new light on the conviction of Phuong Ngo for the murder of NSW ALP MP John Newman 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.
Currawong Beach, Labor and the laps of developers
What a spectacle: the conservatives and arch-conservatives voting with the Greens to protect the Unions NSW-owned holiday venue from Labor-backed developers, writes Alex Mitchell.
