NSW Labor Next To Go

[Garpal Gumnut]

My contacts in the ALP Right in NSW tell me that the Federal Election is lost for them, and that Tony Abbott will be Prime Minister in two days time.

Let us now turn our attention to a miserable government in NSW which has held that once great state back from its true potential for too many years.

Mrs K, and her rabble backers will probably stay until the election, then hopefully a whitewash will ensue.

gg

 

[Mofra]

Vic Labour surely will be next with an election in a couple of months - nothing that has been done at Federal level compares worse than the Myki fiasco, the planning "process" that goes into any development decision or the trains bought here that don't work during periods of "extreme weather" -
lucky we only get mild weather in Melbourne

 

[Aussiejeff]

THE New South Wales Labor government is headed for obliteration at the state election, an opinion poll in today's AN Sunday Telegraph reveals.

The poll found support for the party has plummeted even further. with just one in five people now planning to vote for Labor at the March 2011 polls. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/br...lls-further-poll/story-e6frf7jx-1225993033648

The Galaxy poll shows Labor's primary vote has fallen to 20 per cent, compared to 51 per cent for the Coalition.

On a two-party preferred basis, Labor is trailing on 34 per cent to the Coalition's 66 per cent.

Voters have also overwhelmingly rejected the government's power sale.

The poll was conducted two months ahead of the March 26 state election.

Ireland's PM has resigned.

Perhaps KK & Klan should follow suit and save the poor NSW taxpayers the cost of a totally unnecessary election farce.

 

[Logique]

Network TV news last night said the prediction was that Labor would win just 13 of 90 available seats.

Sydney is fast sinking in the most liveable city stakes, news last night they came in behind Canberra, Adelaide and Melbourne.

 

[Logique]

It's even worse than I thought.

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Nat..._officially_Australias_worst_city_567713.html
Sydney officially Australia's worst city
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Sydney has been branded Australia's worst city - by its own residents.

Despite its obvious charms, ranging from the iconic Opera House, the beautiful harbour and ready access to numerous beaches, Sydneysiders say their city is the pits.
They hammered its natural environment, schools, housing, cleanliness, cultural integration and road network, ranking it bottom of the nation's eight biggest metropolises.

Adelaide is the nation's best city, followed by Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Hobart, Brisbane and Darwin, according to an Auspoll survey commissioned by the Property Council of Australia.

The survey quizzed 4072 across the nation about the cities they live in.

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally hit back at the findings, sarcastically questioning why more people don't live in Adelaide......'Adelaide is a great city but if it's so fantastic why aren't more people living there?'

 

[Calliope]

Keneally hit back at the findings, sarcastically questioning why more people don't live in Adelaide......'Adelaide is a great city but if it's so fantastic why aren't more people living there?'

:topic Perhaps that's why it is so livable. The more people who flock in, the less livable a place becomes. Take the Gold Coast for example, and the Sunshine Coast is rapidly following. It may be a good idea to move to Ireland now that mass migration has started.:alcohol:

 

[Smurf1976]

:topic Perhaps that's why it is so livable. The more people who flock in, the less livable a place becomes.

If you look at Australian cities then there is very little in terms of services, facilities etc that is available in Sydney (4.5 million people) or Melbourne (4 million) that is not also available in Brisbane (2 million). Meanwhile Perth (1.7) or Adelaide (1.2) have most, but not all, of the same services and facilities available.

In contrast Newcastle (0.5 million), Canberra (0.4) and Hobart (0.2) clearly do not have many of the services and facilities available in the larger cities, to the point that residents of these cities often travel to Sydney / Melbourne / Brisbane for this very reason.

Overall, There seems no obvious benefit in having much over 2 million people living in a city in terms of the services and facilities that can be supported. Beyond that you just get more traffic problems, pollution and so on. Below 1 million there is a clear inability to support many facilities and services, and between 1 and 2 million it depends on exactly what facility or service is in question as to whether or not it is likely to be available.

That Sydney has 4.5 million people living there does not in itself seem to be an advantage or achievement of any real benefit to those living there. Two separate cities each with half the population would likely offer virtually the same level of services and facilities with far fewer problems relating to transport, lack of space and so on.

Take a walk around any city centre and note the types of people on the streets. The young and people from regional areas for whom it still has novelty value, city workers who have no choice, tourists who will only be there a few days. Anyone who has seen it for years and has no specific need to be there tends to stay well away from the centre of any large city. There's a reason for that...

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally hit back at the findings, sarcastically questioning why more people don't live in Adelaide......'Adelaide is a great city but if it's so fantastic why aren't more people living there?'

The question she needs to ask is " Why don't more people enjoy living in Sydney, than living in Adelaide, in spite of the population difference?"

What an absolute dill.

gg

 

[drsmith]

The political pickings for the media are slim when The Australian is reduced to picking on NSW state Labor.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...only-in-canberra/story-e6frg6zo-1225992602261

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

It's even worse than I thought.

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Nat..._officially_Australias_worst_city_567713.html
Sydney officially Australia's worst city
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Sydney has been branded Australia's worst city - by its own residents.

Despite its obvious charms, ranging from the iconic Opera House, the beautiful harbour and ready access to numerous beaches, Sydneysiders say their city is the pits.
They hammered its natural environment, schools, housing, cleanliness, cultural integration and road network, ranking it bottom of the nation's eight biggest metropolises.

Adelaide is the nation's best city, followed by Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Hobart, Brisbane and Darwin, according to an Auspoll survey commissioned by the Property Council of Australia.

The survey quizzed 4072 across the nation about the cities they live in.

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally hit back at the findings, sarcastically questioning why more people don't live in Adelaide......'Adelaide is a great city but if it's so fantastic why aren't more people living there?'

Its the politics in NSW that has the place buggered, not the people.

gg

 

[noco]

My contacts in the ALP Right in NSW tell me that the Federal Election is lost for them, and that Tony Abbott will be Prime Minister in two days time.

gg

GG, if only you were right. Ozstralia will be saved at last.

 

[drsmith]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/25/3174092.htm

Why are they even bothering ?

 

[trainspotter]

17 out of 90 possible seats IMO. A pure massacre. Might have to rip the scab off the 1993 Penfolds Grange Hermitage to celebrate.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

17 out of 90 possible seats IMO. A pure massacre. Might have to rip the scab off the 1993 Penfolds Grange Hermitage to celebrate.

There must have been something good that NSW Labor did, over all that time in power.

gg

 

[sails]

17 out of 90 possible seats IMO. A pure massacre. Might have to rip the scab off the 1993 Penfolds Grange Hermitage to celebrate.

The day isn't done yet... And my guess is that labor are making a big deal of their "underdog" status to try and pick up as many sympathy votes or those who don't want the libs to have too much power.

Also, by overdoing it, they can then pat themselves on the back saying the did "better than expected".

That said, I do hope the pre-polls have got it right and that voters aren't "sucked in" by the above tactics.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

The day isn't done yet... And my guess is that labor are making a big deal of their "underdog" status to try and pick up as many sympathy votes or those who don't want the libs to have too much power.

Also, by overdoing it, they can then pat themselves on the back saying the did "better than expected".

That said, I do hope the pre-polls have got it right and that voters aren't "sucked in" by the above tactics.

And the yummy mummy will be wrapped in Leonard Cohen Sister of Mercy calico, for another two thousand years.

gg

 

[moXJO]

There must have been something good that NSW Labor did, over all that time in power.

gg

They really pumped NSW up the wazoo.
I hope the get handed their **** on a plate by the end of the day. The only good thing they will have accomplished is getting kicked totally out of office.

 

[trainspotter]

There must have been something good that NSW Labor did, over all that time in power.

gg

*glug glug glug ~ Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh* ......... there goes the Grange and down goes NSW Labor and squealing Kristina Keneally with it and her horrible American Las Vegas accent.

Q) What's the definition of loneliness?

A) NSW Labors election afterparty.

 

[Logique]

They really pumped NSW up the wazoo.
I hope the get handed their **** on a plate by the end of the day. The only good thing they will have accomplished is getting kicked totally out of office.

Going to be some serious celebrating in NSW tonight. ASF friends please ignore any posts made by me tomorrow. Voting this morning, it was like a carnival, the mood was festive.

Don't be too worried about Premier 'brave Kristina'. The radio talk is that she is being groomed for a role in federal politics.

 

[Slipperz]

To her credit Keneally was out there every day with a smile pushing her barrow of NSW labor dung.

It hasn't even been a campaign really. How could labor campaign on their acheivements when there hasn't been any. Other than a series of scandals and incompetance.

Good riddance.