The best idea I ever heard is that our politicans should be just the ordinary person picked off the street.

The vast majority of our politicians are so out of touch with being an ordinary australian, that it is totally impossible for them to actually be able to represent the average voter.

James, since when did politicians represent the average voter? In which country did this occur? Please enlighten me!

http://dangerouscreation.com

Here's the typical labor stooge/spinmiester in action once again.

This is what people are sick of:

'... the people of NSW and Australia have almost no indication about what the policies of their new Government will be or how they will govern.'

'...there is, in fact, a substantial amount of policy material on the NSW Liberal Party website. The problem is - almost no-one seems to have read it. And if the media has read it, then they have decided that it isn't newsworthy...'

All in the same paragraph.

And obviously the writer is one of those people who hasn't read the Liberal Party policy material and yet he goes on to extol what he sees as the future ineptitude of the liberals and how that will benefit the Labor Federally. It is also disappointing that this writer continues the usual Labor spin of lauding the losing premier yet pours obrium and inuendo on the NSW peoples choice of Premier ... Bazza O'Fazza.

Mate it's your type of Labor centric spin that people everywhere are sick to death of.

It's caused Labor to be where it now finds itself.

Listen to what Keating said about Robertson. I despised Keating but he was fairly astute in his measurement of Labor Politic's and personalities (especially 'Jellyback') and he'd now agree Labor is terminal.

Take a look at the political geographic map if Gillard hasn't members in New England and Port Macquarrie. And count Queensland as Campbells.

Good I am looking forward to having 31% of my GST money wasted in Sydney.

I wish Barry O'Farrell much luck in reforming rail corp.

keith,

Would this be the letter to which you refer in your post of Monday, 28 March 2011 at 5:49:14 PM? This is a link to an item on the ABC site, 'The Drum', titled '"Dear John"... Paul Keating's explosive letter to John Robertson', consisting largely of a purported facimile of that actual letter. See: http://bit.ly/gR14hT .

If it is, and that facsimile is genuine, then we have been afforded an insight as to at least one source of what David Donovan refers to as the ALP's 'NSW disease'. The letter reveals that ultimately we have Keating to thank for the shambolic attempted asset stripping and 'privatisation' of the heretofore publicly owned NSW power generation and distribution system. Some of Keating's specific words from that letter:

"You have replaced a man, who .....
sought to deal with the great and
unfinished problem of New South Wales
electricity and the provision of capital
for new base load power.

... When I met you and went through
the history of the establishment of the
east coast electricity market by the
government that I led in the 1990s, and
why the privatisation of the New South
Wales power stations was consistent with
the benefits of that market, you never
offerred one serious point in rebuttal.
..."

Why should Robertson have had to rebut Keating's arguments? Both the overwhelming majority of the rank and file membership of the ALP in NSW, and more importantly of the public that owned the assets, simply didn't want them sold off!

It is revealing to see Keating's claim that 'the great and unfinished problem of NSW electricity' involved finding capital for NEW BASE LOAD power generation. With the passage of time it seems that the problem, such as it may have ever been, was one of provision of PEAKING LOAD generation capacity, not of base load capacity. Why was the public misled?

The July 2008 OLO article 'Fencing wire and mirrors: the world of the National Energy System' shines some interesting light on this question. See: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7585&page=0

Forrest it's all irrelevant now that Labor is finished.

You might think Labor is Lazarus and that you can breathe life into the cadaver by gibbering on about Labor history but the electorate won't take the slightest bit of notice of that sort of rubbish any longer.

They'll judge on actions ... not spin ... for the next 3 or 4 generations.