It was good at least to see that Rees was up front about the problems and what broadly needs to be done about them. Whether or not he can deliver, we'll just have to wait and see.

One person he could follow is Peter Dowding, the WA Premier who took over from Brian Burke after the WA Inc fiasco. Dowding did a great job in soberly going about putting the WA Government back on an even keel after all the financial rorting and mates deals that had been going on.

So, things can change as long as Rees is the right guy.

Banjo,it is indeed a bad start.Either he is stupid or he is lying.Some months ago even Graham Young was saying the NSW is broke and Graham knows Rees personally.

They are just trying to fudge their way through the next election,hoping that the Libs will again self destruct.They will not undertake reform of the PS since this will upset the Unions.

It is a total mess from top the bottom.The NSW PS is comatose with it's own regulations and fear of the legal disease.The process is more important than the outcomes.They have not only killed business with rules,regulation and taxes but they then make us prey to big business who contract to them.It costs us at leat 3 times the market cost in private enterprise to get anything done in a Govt contract.They are so stupid that even their contracts are flawed leaving the tax payer open to both extra outrageous charges and even litigation.A case in point is the ticketing fiasco.We are being sued for $200 million.

Rees has talked about more taxes,yet makes no mention of curbing their own excesses.I don't think he has a clue.

Nothing short of dramatic surgery will remove this cancer from our midst.We need a change of Govt now!