Ah well, Keneally is a goner, so we all hope, but is that really a dumpling the other side have put up to take over?

It seems the Keneally supporters in the union movement are already planning her rebirth into the Federal scene with plans afoot to dump the poorly performing Garrett from his seat and replace him with an equally poorly performing Keneally.

No wonder the ALP has no prospects as a genuine political party anymore!

A very perceptive article, thank you, Julie.

The only reason that Labor are still around is that they have stuck steadfastly to their unwritten policy of spending taxpayers' money only where it will buy votes for Labor.

Our infrastructure has suffered abominably as a result, but it has kept this undeserving political party in power, to the detriment of the populace, for the many years since it ceased to be viable as an instrument for the good governance of the State.

Eventually such a disgraceful policy, clever and ruthless as Labor perceive it to be, will be their undoing, and, with luck, their time has now come.

Leo

'their unwritten policy of spending taxpayers' money only where it will buy votes for Labor.'

If that were correct, then they might get back again, but clearly everyone is fed up with pork barrels that stop at the edge of an electorate because no one actually benefits from half a system.

I suspect that NSW is just essentially a totally 'corrupt' state, where the wheels of business are always, and will always, be greased by corrupt politicians and public servants, not to mention the business community, because 'that's how it's done in NSW' (and everywhere else for that matter).

Would have said that the need to protect Mr Robinson's union base , particularly in the electricity generators, had more to do with the total dysfunction of the NSW government.

...Both Political parties, in their attempt to woo voters, refuse to acknowledge the vast swath of ordinary workers and their families who struggle day by day in a world of insecure anxiety, where cost of living forms the fixed obsession in the impossible quest of meeting ends; where housing affordability for families is to face-off with a juggernaut of merciless business ventures of the landlords, real estate elite and the investment clique of Bankers and magnate developers; where enforced political correctness is superimposed over cultural traditions, and all hope of improvement is washed away by the tsunami of Political bitchery and nit-picking, drowned by the wave of selfish political enterprise of Liberal and Labour both...

Shallow drivel. Who are these "progressive intellectuals"? The dumbing down of both major parties and the electorate has been going on since the 70s.This article is evidence of that.