ELECTION RECAP | Labor victorious, Perrottet resigns as Liberal leader following NSW election ‘massacre’
Catch up with all the news and colour from an historic election night in NSW.
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Despite all the headlines there is no change of government. The pokies gang remains firmly in control. This is just a reshuffle.
Well Perrottet really owned you didn’t he. After 12 years of absolute loot and pillage that’s what you came up with? Pathetic.
NSW Labor has not been looting and pillaging the last 12 years only because it was not in power. Look what happened when it could get its get its nose in the trough.
How about making book on when the “…looting and pillaging…” will begin?
Like kids in a sweetshop, they just won’t be able to resist to go nutz.
Last night the appalling apparatchik Penny Sharpe – never had any other job – was quite clear about fossil fool open slather, & pokies reform being a minor issue.
Yep, don’t trust NSW Labor a far as I could throw them. The best I can say is that they’re the lesser of two evils – I don’t feel any great sense of triumph.
More the Evil of Two Lessers – the strange thing is the decline in the Green vote statewide – 3% in Balmain!
Even in Ballina where they held on, the vote declined on Antony Green figures.
state wide Greens are up 0.6 so not sure what you’re talking about
SMH (sorry) says 9% swing to the Greens in Ballina.
Indeed and Balmain had a retiring Greens MP, so unsurprising a slight drop in support.
RS & PS above appear to be not only subliterate but innumerate.
eg ‘statewide‘ & ‘Antony Green‘ figures – necessarily partial, given the time of posting.
Poor petals – to such tender mercies the future, if any, lies prostrate, exposed & naked.
don’t you have some strangers to sniff in the public toilets
Actually the John Howard era is finally dead. This is an historical moment for the country…..but you are still tut tutting about the freaking pokies.
None so blind as those that will not see. Never mind, kitten, your eyes should be opened eventually.
Pathetic, immature, defeatist statements by someone who clearly revels in negativity and self flagellation. Australia now has leaders of great integrity in every state and nationally. Minns stormed into power in the state that really matters on an agenda of anti privatisation and a pro worker agenda. Clearly the era of neoliberalism in this country is over. Whatever comes next it’s up to us to build it. Middle class self centred namby pamby liberalism and hysterical identity based greenie idealism may even play a part if you’re willing to get off your arses and do something constructive for once in your lives.
There goes the last of Bevan Shields’s credibility. Good riddance.
He never had any credibility. he basically works for the LNP as does everyone at the SMH.
The ABC along with Crikey are eulogising Dominic Perrottet? The guy is a straight out criminal….a thief, crony and cruel ruthless oppressor of all the workers of NSW. His ICARE reforms were as vile and vicious as Robodebt and even more corrupt and nepotistic.
A little severe on ‘saint’ Dom of the holy church of Aussie right whiners. However everyone must respect the judgement of thr electorate because we are a democracy.
Dom Perro :-
will carry the challenges of the floods with him for the rest of his life? Meanwhile those that went through them and had to wait for help will carry them too.
Shredderjiklian left an indelible mark? More like an imprint, like the pattern of the staves on the bottom of a pork barrel in the dust? Or the pattern of a door sweep, that she wanted to force open to let Covid rip? Then there was the impression she left stamped on Western Sydney during Covid?
Nothing about icare?
His brothers weren’t there for his concession speech? That ‘dynasty’ – why didn’t they stand? … Too busy pulling strings?
… Not a good night for the Mudroch Party.
“Perrottet Inc”? While the Labor Party might have their faceless men : Dom Perro’s mob’s got bodiless men?
Overall it was a very good LNP time in office. From Baird (2014) especially on they conceived an incredibly ambitious infrastructure program which was well costed and delivered with discipline and flair. Sydney is in infinitely better shape than it was at the start of this period of excellent governance. Highlights have been the transport and health infrastructure programs, its nationally-influential leadership on climate change consensus, the structural modernisation of State government itself and some very smart fiscal management, not least the Generations Wealth Fund. This last decade has also produced some of the most competent and decent ministers Australia has seen, and until recently the NSW LNP has been improbably united, outwardly focussed and disciplined, given the split at the national level.
Lowlights have been some of the stupider neoliberal fiscal hypocrisies/blunders, which have often escaped a lot of attention but have created utterly unnecessary longterm structural headaches. From silly ‘little’ things like flogging off the land title office, to the long-term rent-seeker ripoffs like the restrictive ports deeds settlement which will continue to cripple regional productivity, and plenty of other similar rentseeking grifts, some of the early PPP screw-ups and toll contractual stuff. That iCare has yet to truly blow up in Perrotet’s face continues to mystify, and all the other pork-barrel/corruption stuff that’s been obvious for a few years will only now intensify in the bloodletting.
But it was a pretty good period of government indeed. Not that many hereabouts will concede them much. A lot of what the NSW LNP achieved since 2011 holds no real interest to the Crikey readership. But the Minns government will change/challenge very, very little of the solid legacy they’ll inherit. A Labor majority would be a very good outcome for the state. More focus on service delivery and fairness/staffing of all the new hospitals and schools, a clean out of the rent seekers that accumulate over multiple terms, an injection of talent and energy…people like Minns, Pru Car, Jihab Dib, Jo Hayden etc are very much in the Hazard, Kean, Constance, Baird mould. They’ll be decent and diligent ministers and you’d think this could be the start of another period of good and stable government. it does depend a lot on their resistance to old Labor habits but I think that’s history now.
Perrotet’s speech was terrific. But you do worry about the LNP’s future now. Everywhere. Or I do, anyway. The NSW model was as Rundle wrote very perceptively at least a viable pathway ahead for Australian non-left/progressive politics, and the voters clearly didn’t buy it. You soft pap progs are all absolutely entitled to celebrate but I’m less sure the the left/progressive red (and teal) wave across the mainland is as either left or as progressive as you think. The polarisation in the country is real and a lot of it is still invisible, and the NSW LNP in government was in fact a rare remaining brake/mitigation of that. Those of you salivating at the imminent death of Menzies’ broad church should be careful what you wish for. Especially as that ‘sea of red’ will have to lead us through an economic catastrophe. Good luck with it.
Crikey’s coverage of the NSW election has been great. Thanks for that.
Perhaps what Crikey readers understand is that for all your much-lauded infrastructure creation there are still whole swathes of NSW with nothing to show for 12 years of a Coalition government. Literally, nothing. Huge tracts of land cleared, rail lines lying idle or disintegrating, rural towns becoming uninhabitable due to climate chaos with not a governmental intervention to be seen, and great big holes in the ground instead of precious agricultural land (or even promised stadiums that we actually don’t need).
The other big hole is the one occupied by integrity, compassion, decency and vision.
While members of the Coalition were busy feathering their nests, placating their party donors, inventing schemes to screw more money and power out of the system for themselves, and generally behaving like pigs at a trough (not fair to pigs really), the electorate was largely left to fend for itself when disaster came knocking.
Tell the homeless how good the Coalition has been.
Tell those who died while waiting for medical treatment or the kids in classrooms of more than thirty.
Tell the people whose houses were forcibly repossessed by the government at a pittance to be replaced by roads, or the communities destroyed so that more rich people could have harbour views.
Of course, they’ll agree with you what a great job Baird, Berejiklian and Perrottet have done. And those nice people are now sitting in their cushy offices reaping the rewards of their loyalty to their true masters, all while we paid their salaries and stupidly expected them to do the job we elected them to do.
A well-written opinion, Mr Robertson, but like everything else you write, only the half of the story you want to believe.
La la la, not listening, not seeing, not caring.
I’m finding it hard to believe, but I must say that to about half of your post, I find myself in agreement, See what you can achieve when you dial down the vitriol and blind pig-headedness and actually think something through ?
The situation with the cons is quite possibly nearly terminal especially federally, to the extent that unless they purge themselves, they’ll become a largely irrelevant rump,in the same way as the DLP.
And that ain’t good for democracy, unless the Teals can get a centre-right real ‘liberal’ party up and running. Although that presumes that Labor won’t shoot itself in the foot as it has been prone to do.
Interesting times
Has neoliberalism snuffed it or is there a spark of life that can be restarted with a pair of jumper leads?