2015 NSW Election

[Craton]

I'm curious to see if those now elected keep to the promised $millions in securing water for the Far West. Seems a pole and wire sale is the way to funding it.

Although, better water management coupled with better agribusiness methods would seem a far better solution in the long run IMHO.

Good luck Mr Baird and barring further ICAC sheningans, long may you serve us well and yes, make no mistake, I'd be saying the same to Mr Foley if he was elected.

 

[Logique]

I'm curious to see if those now elected keep to the promised $millions in securing water for the Far West. Seems a pole and wire sale is the way to funding it.......

I hope so too.

But it's ironic that these same parts of the the state were bitterly opposed to 'poles and wires', and through the National Party, secured an exemption to leasing for Essential Energy.

Does 0% 'privatized' = 0% of the funds for water supply? No they won't be held accountable for their irrationality. A bit like the Greens in that respect.

 

[sptrawler]

I think it is great, how the media ranted on, that Abbott caused the loss of State elections.

Today on the t.v news and Fairfax, very little said. lol

 

[Knobby22]

Good to see. That rubbish in the papers that voters are completely disengaged has been proven wrong.
From what I saw from this distance, Labor failed to understand that they had to win the NSW election, not the Fed election.

Good to see intelligent voting and a discussion of issues. I hope the Federal Libs learnt a few lessons and will now stop treating us like children and be prepared to engage the public.

Yes noco, you were right which meant the Queensland election must have showed a very poor performance from the incumbents.

 

[orr]

Someone's lost their lazy $10.

There's a silver lining to so many clouds... To distract the distempered from their aching hate boner for the poor oppressed and wretched of the world even if momentarily is a good thing(particularly for the distempered). 19%(?) swing against Goward, is that to do with the proximity to Captain Clown shoes?, a CSG revolt in the North. And Go the Jets, Newtown goes Green.


'Newtown is fly'n
There'll be no deny'n
Newtown Newtown

See the Boy's all dressed in Blue(green)
See the blue(green) Bags come'n threw
Newtown Newtown

13 boy's all dressed in blue(green).....

The destruction of the Liverpool plains...well, you can light a sparkler and enjoy yourself in your back yard with that one doc.


Get down to Henson u'all, where the football hardly matters and it's a great arvo for the kids.

 

[noco]

They say 3rd time lucky but for the Green/Labor socialist left the lies and propaganda that worked in Victoria and Queensland has back fired on them in NSW....Voters in NSW saw what has already happened in Vic. and QLD. and were not going to be fooled.

Labor now have some deep thinking to do in the way they are heading...If they continue down the democratic socialist path, they might find it will come back to bite them on the bum....They have to get back to the grass roots of what Labor really should be standing for and not lies and populism.


http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/.../reforming_the_economy_shouldnt_be_this_hard/

And thanks to Rowan Dean for this vote of thanks to Queensland Labor:

DEAR Queenslanders, the people of New South Wales, and indeed of all of Australia, owe you, our Queensland cousins, an enormous debt of gratitude on this pleasing Monday morning…

I refer of course to your extraordinarily generous ... decision to elect, some weeks ago, a completely unskilled, amateurish, novice, unprepared, clueless Labor government instead of sticking with the conservative one you had which, despite some personality flaws, was actually making a good fist of improving Queensland’s economic future.

...this was Queensland’s cunning and extremely effective method of warning the rest of Australia how easy it is for an economically sound government to be swept away by a party with no ideas, no policies, and nothing but a bunch of union-funded anti-privatisation claptrap to sell itself with. All it took was a Labor Party offering nothing whatsoever except the Luddite promise of retaining state assets and enough people were seduced into voting for them because ... they didn’t much like the cut of Campbell Newman’s jib.

Meanwhile, inspired by Annastacia’s antics, NSW Labor decided to pull the exact same stunt. “No Sell Off” posters appeared the length and breadth of the state, coupled with sinister black and white photographs designed to convince the electorate that Mike Baird and Tony Abbott were the modern equivalent of the notorious Kray twins, much as Labor in Queensland had done linking Newman to Abbott. So self-deluded was NSW’s alternative premier Luke Foley that he actually articulated this strategy: “If Mr Baird goes on Saturday, Mr Abbott goes on the Monday”, he told a rapturous group of the faithful.

I expect Mr Foley to acknowledge the flip side of his inarguable logic; namely, that he accepts that the overwhelming win for Mike Baird is an equally strong endorsement of Tony Abbott, and condemnation of the empty policies of Bill Shorten.

(Many thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill. Thanks, too, to reader Doc Molloy.)