The first Newspoll since the NSW election has Labor polling at an abysmal 22%. The next election is 42 months away and numbers were expected to be bad, but not that bad, writes Mr Tiedt.
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The NSW Labor shit sheet revealing an ‘anaemic’ membership
A NSW Young Labor Right “shit sheet” has inadvertently unveiled the membership cancer at the heart of the NSW ALP at the same time elder statesman John Faulkner slams the party’s “anaemic” culture.
NSW Labor’s parting gift — a rise in unemployment
Big falls in unemployment in Victoria and South Australia have helped drive the national unemployment rate below 5% in March.
A striking set of numbers in New South Wales
A week after the massacre, and the New South Wales election is wrapping up. The last doubtful seat in the lower house was decided on Friday, when the Greens claimed victory in Balmain — comfortably from the Liberals on preferences, but by just 205 votes ahead of Labor at the critical point. (They will almost certainly also […]
Robbo takes the top job as NSW Labor’s history wars rage on
John Robertson is a rebel with a cause, a diabolically difficult one — to transform NSW Labor from a national laughing stock to a viable political entity. His time starts now.
Political snippets: What is it about former Treasurers?
What is it about former treasurers? I don’t know who was the more vicious — Paul Keating or Peter Costello. Both are reported this morning giving the controllers of the NSW Labor Party a terrible bake. Peter Costello writes how NSW’s big Ponzi scam has finally collapsed while Paul Keating declares the likely new state Labor Leader […]
Carr: NSW Labor’s masochistic genius
New South Wales Labor were the architects of their own demise, and what a spectacular downwards trajectory they forged. Bob Carr reflects on what went wrong and the party’s masterful grasp of self-destruction.
Essential: NSW Labor’s position getting worse, quickly
A week out from the NSW election, Labor’s poor position has deteriorated further, according to a new Essential poll.
NSW Labor faces a leadership vacuum
Ten days to go now to the New South Wales election, and Labor, not surprisingly, just wants it to be over.
NSW Labor bags NSW Labor
A NSW Labor MP locked in one of the state election’s closest contests has bagged his party’s record on planning, privatisation, climate change, and law and order.
Essential: Labor only facing disaster, not apocalypse, in NSW
Labor’s vote is worsening in NSW, according to Essential Research’s new poll, although it’s only facing a shattering defeat, not the annihilation suggested by other polls.
Fresh from the e drug scandal, Firth fronts the Balmain forum
Twenty-two retiring MPs can’t be wrong. Campaigning to be elected to NSW parliament as a Labor MP in 2011 is a bitch of a task. Crikey went to an MP forum in Balmain to see just how tough it will be for one embattled Labor member.
Political snippets: Labor pains in New South Wales
That NSW opinion poll verdict — A remarkable thing about that Newspoll verdict today on politics in New South Wales is not just how poorly Labor is doing but just is how few of the discontented Labor voters have actually turned to the Liberals and the Nationals. The predicted Labor vote is down a massive 15 percentage […]
Newspoll: 61-39 to Coalition in NSW
The latest bi-monthly Newspoll shows the executioner’s axe continuing to hang over the head of the Labor government in New South Wales, with the Coalition leading the two-party preferred vote 61-39, writes William Bowe.
Robbo’s rise a bit of a blur, but the NSW powerbroker stands ready to lead
Life’s just one big blur for John “Robbo” Robertson, the man most likely to be NSW’s next Opposition leader. But as NSW Labor hurtles towards oblivion, at least he is the one member of cabinet smiling all the way to the car crash, writes Candace Sutton.
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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.
Porn and gambling are small chips for NSW Labor
NSW minister Paul McLeay was forced to resign from office after being busted indulging in porn and gambling. But these are comparatively small chips for a government linked to an ignominious record including pedophilia, domestic violence, travel rorts and sexual assault, writes Joe Hildebrand.
Aarons: Too many factions, too many focus groups
Spinning deals and generating funds form the heart and soul or lack thereof of NSW Labor, and its role in making and breaking Kevin Rudd provides more evidence that the ALP place far too much emphasis on factions and focus groups, says Mark Aarons.
NSW Labor staring down the barrel of electoral obliteration
A new secret poll reveals what the pundits have been saying for eons: that there’s big trouble in little NSW Labor town. Polls conducted by Labor and unions suggest there will be a 15% statewide swing against the government.
Labor’s problems haven’t been solved with knifing of Rudd
Labor’s problems are deeper than those of Kevin Rudd’s managerial style. Julia Gillard must answer the question of what Labor stands for.
Political snippets: No movement for Tony
Copenhagen might have made the Labor position on global warming more difficult to justify but the Crikey Election Indicator still has the government of Kevin Rudd comfortably favourite as this pre-election year draws to a close.
Can Graeme Wedderburn save NSW Labor?
The NSW Labor Government is in such dire straits that no single individual can save it, writes Alex Mitchell.
