Following the closure of nominations yesterday, today was the day candidates were announced and ballot paper draws conducted. My election guide has been updated accordingly with full candidate lists in ballot paper order on each electorate page, and I’ve also been very busy supplementing it with a few formerly missing bits: more candidate photos and bios, full results of by-elections in the five seats that have had them over the past term, and a fair bit of work on the Legislative Council guide now that I know exactly what’s going on there, which is always obscure until candidate details are published.
The number of candidates is little changed on last time: 562 in the lower house compared with 568, and 21 upper house groups compared with 20. One Nation and the Liberal Democrats are both running in 17 seats compared with 12 and 10 respectively last time; there are 68 lower house independents, up from 52; Animal Justice are down from 48 to 33; Shooters Fishers and Farmers are down from 25 to 20; and Sustainable Australia are up from 55 to 82. Notable absences this time are Keep Sydney Open, Australian Conservatives and the Christian Democrats, who respectively ran in 42, 19 and 18 lower house seats in 2019. New to the game are Legalise Cannabis with 23 lower house candidates and Informed Medical Options with 10, plus a couple of others.
Of note:
• In the Legislative Council, the first two columns have gone to high-profile figures of the right, although neither are part of a registered party, which should put a crimp on their chances. In column A is a ticket headed by Lyle Shelton, high-profile former managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby and a leading figure in the campaign against same-sex marriage. Group B is a ticket headed by Craig Kelly, who remains the national director of the United Australia Party, which is not registered in New South Wales. A membership revolt against John Ruddick’s dumping as lead Liberal Democrats candidate evidently succeeded, as he heads the party’s ticket at Group J, one spot next to the Coalition at Group I. The party does quite a lot better when it is well to the left of the Liberals, and thus the first party with liberal in the name that most voters encounter. Labor are in group D, while the Greens and One Nation have both drawn short straws at groups Q and R on a ticket that extends to Group U. UPDATE: Antony Green points out that the Craig Kelly and Silvana Nile tickets, along with some lesser-known ones, have neglected to nominate 15 candidates, which means that while they will get their own column on the ballot paper, they will not have above-the-line boxes, so those wishing to vote for them will have to number candidates individually – presumably reducing their chances from little to none.
• A surprise late development has been the emergence of outgoing Holsworthy MP Melanie Gibbons as the Liberal candidate in Kiama, which will be defended by Liberal-turned-independent member Gareth Ward. The party’s candidate review committee last week rejected its only existing nominee the seat, Gail Morgan. Gibbons was defeated for preselection in her existing seat and repeatedly overlooked for a position on the Legislative Council ticket, despite Dominic Perrottet having promised her a position in the ministry when she was persuaded not to pursue the federal seat of Hughes. Perrottet says Gareth Ward’s suspension should continue as long as he faces sexual assault charges.
• Fairfield mayor Frank Carbone will not after all be running in Cabramatta, or backing another independent in Fairfield. As the Sydney Morning Herald’s CBD column noted this morning, Carbone finally came off the fence after Labor promised $115 million for an upgrade of Fairfield Hospital.
Other news:
• Max Maddison of The Australian reported on Monday that an unidentified Liberal MP believed the party’s situation was “mirroring the federal election: holding up quite well in Sydney’s west but seeing significant swings across middle Sydney”. In particular, “the swing now appeared to be on in seats like Ryde, Parramatta and Oatley”, and pessimistic noises were further made about Penrith and East Hills in view of their narrow margins. A “senior Liberal minister” was quoted saying “Parramatta is dead”, adding credence to a report from Seven News on Sunday that the party’s internal polling pointed to a 10% swing, more than sufficient to account for a margin of 6.5%. Efforts to take back Coogee from Labor had been abandoned, and there was “a degree of risk” from teal independents in North Shore, Pittwater, Willoughby and Wakehurst, although Vaucluse candidate Kellie Sloane was “doing well and likely to be elected”.
• Antony Green has prepared a splendidly detailed file showing how candidates’ preferences flowed in each seat in 2019, based on the lower house ballot paper data which New South Wales uniquely provides.
the problim for both sides is both leaders arnt very inspiring both are running safe stratigies not willing to make the campaign overly interesting or taking any risks which leads to low interest from the publick how ever with Matt kean all ready acting as opposition leader all ready it seems like he has given up winning and is getting ready to become the next opposition leader as the party has no real options other then kean after perottit if not damaged buy barilarow scandle ayres could have been an other option but kean realy is only choice henskins is unknown realy and speakman will probaly replace morrison when he resigns shortly after the election
mins does n ot seem to have much pation for the job he seems bored half the time on the campaign he has gottin a little bit better but is very relucdent to realy point out the liberals failings leaving Car and moohkey and penny sharpe to be his main attack dogs
Leppington is a worry for the ALP. Interesting candidate selection in the Mayoral candidate who was walloped by the Liberal candidate in Liverpool Council elections. Sounds like it will be a fight to the end.
Today’s SMH feature on the Premier highlights his friendship with Paul Keating and his appointing Michael Coots-Trotter to be head of his own department(Tanya Plebersek’s hubby).
The SMH today really trying to portray Perrottett as not your typical Liberal state leader, someone who apparently can work well with Dan Andrews and the Victorian state Treasurer Tim Pallas.
Wranslide: in relation to Leppington, the ALP candidate Nathan Haggarty doesn’t seem like a dud to me at all, fairly solid is my impression of him. It is true that the Liberals are bombarding that seat with a lot of promises and announcements and endless visits from Perrottett and Kean. Therese Fideli, the Liberal candidate, is very happy to do the photo ops with Perrottett but she doesn’t attend any campaign forums.
Hegarty is from labors soft left faction he works as chief of staff tolocal federal mp Anne Stanley he did loose liverpools mayors race to liberals but he seems a good candadate
the herald are triying to claim perottit as not your typical liberal but he has allways been close to keating wonder how minnswill work with victorian government
Today’s Daily Telegraph promoting Melanie Gibbons running for Kiama. Their pro Liberal bias is so blatant in that article, a bit on Gareth Ward, the Labor candidate totally ignored.
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Aaron newtonsays:
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 9:46 am
mins does n ot seem to have much pation for the job he seems bored half the time on the campaign he has gottin a little bit better but is very relucdent to realy point out the liberals failings leaving Car and moohkey and penny sharpe to be his main attack dogs
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That is exactly my point. He is inspiring, no passion and laid back in his attitude towards campaign.
That is only thing which may allow LNP to get into government. That is the only reason I am uncertain of Labor government.
LNP don’t deserve to be in the government.
If a government and party can be reelected after rorting disaster funds in the bush after fires and floods(mixed with their incompetence – what is it, 10 house buybacks initiated so far in Lismore!), then bringing Sydney to a gridlocked standstill as the finale to a year of public transport chaos , while they are more engaged with internecine battles over the spoils, I’ll be surprised. With Kean as leader maybe, but he is excoriated on 2GB for not being a denialist. The world has moved on
The amount of cookers of one sort or another about is concerning – at least in my anecdotal experience – , but their votes will exhaust rather than go the Libs or Nats
The Nationals have disendorsed their candidate for Cessnock – racist tweets he issued a few years ago have come to light.
You never know, he might pull a Pauline Hanson, who won one of the safest seats in the country (with demographics not dissimilar to the Nock) after being disendorsed by the Liberals for attacking “the Aboriginal industry”.
If it wasn’t for that, we would probably never have heard of her.
Either that, or One Nation might come second. They did (distantly) in 1999, and both them and the Shooters have done well in Upper Hunter more recently.
Speaking of Upper Hunter, Dale McNamara (their candidate in the 2021 by-election) is running as an independent. No One Nation candidate, although the Shooters are there.
South Coast looking dicey for Labor – unassisted by their low-altitude campaign. Not sure their single caravan of boomers will pull them across the line.
Oakeshott Countrysays:
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 9:41 pm
You never know, he might pull a Pauline Hanson, who won one of the safest seats in the country (with demographics not dissimilar to the Nock) after being disendorsed by the Liberals for attacking “the Aboriginal industry”.
If it wasn’t for that, we would probably never have heard of her.
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Things I’ve learnt from 50 years following politics is :- NEVER SAY NEVER
and
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
but the liberqal candadate for south coast luke sickora is a typical corear politician worked for most of the last two decades as a staffer to the out going mp Shelley hancock liberals used to call labor politicians who came from a union background or staffing hacks but now the liberals are doing the same thing i dont see how labor is strugiling perottithas hardly viseted hear not from the aeria
Been having a riffle through the upper house candidates. My favourite has gotta be “R Cheetham”, who clearly thought being an ungrouped independent was too high-profile, so they go without a first name.
*a few minutes of slightly stalkerish googling*
As far as I can tell, it’s Ruth. Here’s her Linkedin:
https://au.linkedin.com/in/ruth-cheetham-a18881157
And that’s just to find out what her name is. Nothing online about her being a candidate (at least, with the amount of google-fu I could be bothered using). She seems relatively harmless, but… why? She’ll get less than 100 votes. If she just wanted to donate money to the NSWEC, I’m sure they can send her their bank details.
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Oakeshott Countrysays:
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 9:41 pm
You never know, he might pull a Pauline Hanson, who won one of the safest seats in the country (with demographics not dissimilar to the Nock) after being disendorsed by the Liberals for attacking “the Aboriginal industry”.
If it wasn’t for that, we would probably never have heard of her.
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The Coalition candidate in Oakesshott country (Coffs Harbour) is a Climate change denialist.
That seat is winnable for LNP. What is your opinion on that?
Didn’t you criticise Labor for selecting career politicians like union officials and staffers to contest in elections? What is your opinion on LNP doing the same (i.e. selecting career politicians)?
subgeometersays:
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 7:10 pm
If a government and party can be reelected after rorting disaster funds in the bush after fires and floods(mixed with their incompetence – what is it, 10 house buybacks initiated so far in Lismore!), then bringing Sydney to a gridlocked standstill as the finale to a year of public transport chaos , while they are more engaged with intedownfall on this rnecine battles over the spoils, I’ll be surprised. With Kean as leader maybe, but he is excoriated on 2GB for not being a denialist. The world has moved on.
The amount of cookers of one sort or another about is concerning – at least in my anecdotal experience – , but their votes will exhaust rather than go the Libs or Nats.
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I agree with all of the above.
But in MHO the downfall of this government rests entirely with the resignation of disgraced premier Gladrags Berejiklian.
Her appearance before ICAC should have triggered an early state election.
Sadly, we now have fixed terms and with the MSM letting Gladrags off the hook, it seems no one , even Poll Bludgers, mention her fall from grace.
There is still 2 weeks to go and Minns, although flying under the radar like Albo did, could throw the odd line in almost every interview about Gladrags having to resign, not only as premier but from parliament before fronting ICAC.
There is no greater feather in Minns hat, than to have been LOTO, when the PREMIER OF THE STATE had to resign with accusations of CORRUPTIONS between her and her secret boyfriend.
Minns, just do it!
Oakeshott Countrysays:
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 9:41 pm
You never know, he might pull a Pauline Hanson, who won one of the safest seats in the country (with demographics not dissimilar to the Nock) after being disendorsed by the Liberals for attacking “the Aboriginal industry”.
If it wasn’t for that, we would probably never have heard of her.
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I first met Pauline Hanson over 50 years ago at her fathers cafe, Jacks for Snacks in Woolloongabba. Even then I could see that she was on a mission. Even with her ups and downs, good or bad, right or wrong, she has cemented her place in Australian political history.
An enigma, in the true sense of the word.
Ven:
Port Macquarie, surely. “Winnable”? Yeah, just a bit – it’s one of the safest coalition seats in NSW! The only question is whether the Libs or Nats win (it’s a three-cornered contest). My bet would be Leslie Williams the Nat-turned-Lib, as she’s (a) the incumbent and (b) not crazy.
Oakeshott Country (the poster) has actually been a Labor candidate once upon a time, so he’s obviously gonna have a stronger opinion on the way Labor play the game. He’s certainly got some interesting stories.
Cashless gaming card is surveillance state garbage. And all to restrict a perfectly legal pasttime – live and let live, remember when we used to be a free society?
And if you really wanted to rein gambling in, you’d address the social determinants anyway – lack of affordable housing, cost of living crisis etc. Stop blaming the victim.
“Nanny state” = a bot bought ‘n’ paid for by the NSW version of RSL.
I’m from WA. Our pubs don’t have pokies. You can lose your money at Burswood casino, buying scratchies, or betting on the horses or the dogs, but at least not the mindless BOOP BOOP BEEP like over east.
Here, RSL is an acronym – it stands for “Returned Services League”. Lots of little towns have RSL halls (and war memorials), and most people only go there on Anzac Day to eat lamingtons and sing “Lest We Forget” – it’s heavily designed around WW1. Maybe WW2 if you’re lucky. Like Freemason halls, they mostly gather dust.
Bird of Paradise @ 10.40pm
It is my understanding that No Notion and the Hunters & Gatherers have reached an agreement not to contest the same seats, in order to maximise their overall voting tally, possibly hoping to secure enough votes to elect respective Legislative Council seats.
If ALP need 5 (without crossbench changes) they get the 3 Greens, Alex Greenwich and Greg Piper the north coast independent mayor guy who based on his own words wouldn’t seem willing to join with the far-right elements the the LNP would require teaming up with, and would be rewarding the Liberal Party that forced him out of his job as Mayor of Lake Macquarie when the Liberals passed the Get Clover bill in 2012.
@Bird of paradox, if that Ruth is really the candidate in question, that linkin page says she’s doing a master of law at uni, maybe it’s linked to that somehow. Curious.
i think minns is avoiding mentioning gladis resignation due to her popularity but she escaped any scrutiny from the msm minns could do a better jonb that a out going liberal member john sidoti sitting as a independent has ceruption findings aggainst him and health minister Brad hazard praised him as a great local member in his final speech plus garith ward on asult chargis whoseems to be popular desbite the fact if he winns cant take his seat in parliament
plus in bush fire effected seats could bring up barilarow bush fire grants
In a close contest the Labor candidate in Goulburn has gained the top position on the voting paper. Here’s hoping the donkeys of Goulburn get him over the line.
Gladys Berejiklian pre-ICAC findings is an unknown parameter. I can see why Minns is wary of opening that front.
That we are still pre-ICAC determination is pretty poor however. The electorate should have that information in making their choice.
The Arafura by election is well under way. An unprecedented election for the NT – mobile polling in west Arnhem Land at the height of a very wet ‘Wet’ season. Very expensive as nearly all booths are accessible only by chartered aircraft.
Nine booths conducted this last week taking less than 500 votes. Seven small homelands in the greater Maningrida district & two larger island communities Minjalang (Croker). & Warruwi (Goulburn).
Labor, CLP & Australian Federation Party are fielding candidates. Alan Middleton a former Vic policeman is the only Balanda (Non-indigenous) candidate while Labor & CLP are fielding Tiwi candidates- Manuel Brown & Leslie Tungatalum respectively.
Labor believes it has done well this past week but acknowledges that the three largest booths Wurrimiyanga ( Bathurst Is), Maningrida & Gunbalunya will decide the result this week. Both are very keen to win & are putting substantial resources into the contest.
The only static booth on Saturday is Jabiru in Kakadu National Park.
My tip Labor to hold with a slightly increased majority in a record low turnout.
Sportsbet seat by seat odds update:
They have Labor favourite in 42 seats, that includes gaining Heathcote, Leppington, East Hills, Parramatta, Penrith and Camden off the Libs. Upper Hunter and Goulburn are line ball contests, so are Riverstone and Seven Hills.
Teals not favourites in any seats they’re contesting in Sydney.
the nt poast should be in general this is just nswelection icac needs reform it isunacseptable that icac takes years to make findings plus it seems political a lot of bad coveridge but apart from a few high profile acseptions most icac finds never result in criminal charges after a lot of imbaresment the only person that did any thing rong in the aldi plastick bagwas ernist wong a former labor mp who mis lead icac the twoformer labor general secretaries who failed to report the donation icac could find nothing against them
If I was Chris Minns I’d be worried about being favourite in only 42 seats at this stage. 42 seats + 3 Greens should be close enough, but if it’s only 41 seats it starts to get complicated.
Hanging out for some new polling! I think it would still be about 53/47 two pp. And if so, I think the ALP would win more than 42 seats, no matter what the betting market says.
i generaly believe some form of icac is good buticac should operate like a court you should beinosent until provin guilty icacs publick hearings are more like publick show trials where you have to prove you are inosent and your reputation distroyed with long time waiting for a finding years later and hardly ever is any thing criminal provin
Very true there has been scant polling in this election, especially of the published poll variety, so I guess that means the political nerd like yours truly turns to the often totally unreliable betting markets instead. Perhaps a better indication of how things really are progressing is to see which seats the two main party leaders are campaigning in every day. For example, Minns was in Goulburn on Friday and in Penrith and Seven Hills yesterday. Perrottett spent Friday in Kogarah.
There WILL be negative ads by Labor. Patience, grasshoppers.
Not a bot, Bird of Paradox, just someone who values privacy. I would oppose anything cashless.
This ain’t Evan and MQ’s first rodeo
https://www.pollbludger.net/2007/03/22/judgement-day/#comments
98.6 says:
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 12:12 am
subgeometersays:
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 7:10 pm
If a government and party can be reelected after rorting disaster funds in the bush after fires and floods(mixed with their incompetence – what is it, 10 house buybacks initiated so far in Lismore!), then bringing Sydney to a gridlocked standstill as the finale to a year of public transport chaos , while they are more engaged with intedownfall on this rnecine battles over the spoils, I’ll be surprised. With Kean as leader maybe, but he is excoriated on 2GB for not being a denialist. The world has moved on.
The amount of cookers of one sort or another about is concerning – at least in my anecdotal experience – , but their votes will exhaust rather than go the Libs or Nats.
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I agree with all of the above.
But in MHO the downfall of this government rests entirely with the resignation of disgraced premier Gladrags Berejiklian.
Her appearance before ICAC should have triggered an early state election.
Sadly, we now have fixed terms and with the MSM letting Gladrags off the hook, it seems no one , even Poll Bludgers, mention her fall from grace.
There is still 2 weeks to go and Minns, although flying under the radar like Albo did, could throw the odd line in almost every interview about Gladrags having to resign, not only as premier but from parliament before fronting ICAC.
There is no greater feather in Minns hat, than to have been LOTO, when the PREMIER OF THE STATE had to resign with accusations of CORRUPTIONS between her and her secret boyfriend.
Minns, just do it!
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The “different rules” paradigm: Right wing opposition leaders are allowed to boast about seeing off a PM/Premier…
Historyintime says:
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 12:24 pm
If I was Chris Minns I’d be worried about being favourite in only 42 seats at this stage. 42 seats + 3 Greens should be close enough, but if it’s only 41 seats it starts to get complicated.
Hanging out for some new polling! I think it would still be about 53/47 two pp. And if so, I think the ALP would win more than 42 seats, no matter what the betting market says.
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Hmm. Lack of published polling just before an election. Things wouldn’t be dire for the Coalition, would they?
In related news: IMHO, Chris Minns is the least inspiring Labor leader in any state/territory in the country, with the exception of Tasmania and possible exception of NT.
…and I’m a paid up ALP member hoping my former state of NSW will ditch the LNP in a couple of weeks.
Hanson on a mission even as a child?
Once a bigoted dickhead grifter always a bigoted dickhead grifter.
The woman. Is. Was. Always will be a gormless moron. She and Scomo are sisters at arms.
MABwM – checking in from Bali.says:
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 11:11 pm
Hanson on a mission even as a child?
Once a bigoted dickhead grifter always a bigoted dickhead grifter.
The woman. Is. Was. Always will be a gormless moron. She and Scomo are sisters at arms.
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Pauline Hanson will be 69 on 27th May this year.
C@tmommasays:
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 5:27 pm
There WILL be negative ads by Labor. Patience, grasshoppers.
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What good is having an election to the opposition, unless you bring out the negative ads.
What better negative ad can Labor throw at the voters than pointing to the resignation of a NSW Liberal Premier Gladrags Berejiklian , not only from the top job but from parliament.
Show the voters how they were deceived by the so called Miss Popularity.
When things heated up in the kitchen, she got out quickly.
An ad like that is worth tens of thousands of votes to Labor.
Minns, Just do it!
Minns to me is a totally decent bloke and he presents well on the media, but I suspect he is still invisible to the majority, and it is a handicap when the media in Sydney give Perrottet blanket coverage, a good example is tonight’s Nine news giving Dom and family an extended interview, I somehow doubt the same opportunity will be handed to Chris Minns and his wife and sons.
I doubt an anti Gladys TV ad would work, she was wildly popular.
And with the lack of any polling, who knows what the true state of the race is anyway?
minns is not inspiring but the wa premier is very popular desbite him not being inspiringperrottit before becomingpremier was little known as well his new supper style policy for home owners seems to complicated to explain and released to late to have much impact
On the references to the Costello rag and bias
In Victoria their lead headline is a puff piece on Frydenberg winning back “his seat”
We will see what influence the pro-Liberal media Chairs have – and I would trust it is nil
The NSW Premier also “works” with the Federal Government but the Prime Minister has given a scathing assessment
Evan@ 6.08 am:
Apparently Ch 9 did a short piece on Minns last week. Link below was posted on the latest Open Thread last night by Snappy Tom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PHlvvBIMSM
Evan says:
Monday, March 13, 2023 at 6:08 am
Minns to me is a totally decent bloke and he presents well on the media, but I suspect he is still invisible to the majority, and it is a handicap when the media in Sydney give Perrottet blanket coverage, a good example is tonight’s Nine news giving Dom and family an extended interview.
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98.6 in reply:
Evan, there’s not much you can do about that but think back to Scomo who had the ukulele shit and sing song and where he had all the usual suspect MSM on his side and those same A-holeys tried to crucify Dan in Vic, all to no avail.
Don’t forget what they said about Albo, that no one really knows him, even though he was one of the longest serving members of parliament at 26 years and 3 of those was as opposition leader.
They said the same about KEVINO7 who had only been in parliament for less than 10 years and had never held a ministry or in fact had never been in government.
Its all crap. Voters know who Minns is and there is still 2 weeks to go to refresh the memory of those who may have forgotten.
Evan says @ 6.08:
I doubt an anti Gladys TV ad would work, she was wildly popular.
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I beg to differ.
I wonder what those voters who thought Gladbags was Miss Popularity, think of her now, after her fall from grace, not only in front of ICAC but live on National TV.
If you were one of them, would you feel tricked, duped, lied to, cheated on with the endless accusations labeled at her relationship with her SECRET boyfriend.
I don’t see Labor dwelling on these anti-Glad ads but they must keep reminding voters that their premier from 18 months ago had to resign, not only from the premiership but from parliament.
What a weak livered person she was, when the shit was about to hit the fan, she f**ked off leaving her colleagues in the lurch with a by-election to follow.
You can’t tell me that story is not worth several thousand votes for Labor?
Do you think the Liberals wouldn’t have ads like that if it was a Labor premier resigning?
Her fall from grace was a pivotal moment in NSW/Australian politics and lets not let them forget it.
98.6@1:40pm
“Her fall from grace was a pivotal moment in NSW/Australian politics and lets not let them forget it.”
I agree with that.
Why?
Morrison hitched his re-election wagon to her popularity.
He apparently counted on ( witness how hard they worked behind scenes to draft Gladys B as per news reports) holding LNP seats in NSW and increasing them there for any losses acquired in WA and VIC. Her refusal to work with him was political death blow to him. Ofcourse other events contributed to his political device but he never regained popularity after her political demise. For example, the postings of people like Lars shown how they did not expect Gladys B resignation and expected increase in popularity of Morrison from end of October, 2021.
It reminds me of the story of a Sorcerer who stored his life (heart) in parrot so that as long as the parrot was not dead Sorcerer remains alive. The hero eventually kills the parrot (first) and the Sorcerer next and marries the princess abducted by the Sorcerer.
Aaron newton says:
Monday, March 13, 2023 at 8:06 am
minns is not inspiring but the wa premier is very popular desbite him not being inspiringperrottit before becomingpremier was little known as well his new supper style policy for home owners seems to complicated to explain and released to late to have much impact
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I agree Aaron the ‘super for kids’ style policy is complicated and IMHO absolute BS.
If people are having ‘Cost of living problems’ now, I doubt they will want to contribute between $400 -$1,000 a year, so they may have UP TO $49,000 deposit in the future to buy a house where a house anywhere in NSW or the country by then would most probably cost $2 million PLUS.
As for its release being too late to have much impact, it reminds me of the Opposition LNP leader in QLD Deb Frecklington in a desperate move releasing a policy bribe in the last two weeks of the QLD state election, where she said every registered car’s owner would receive a $300 cash refund if they were elected to government.
Talk about buying votes, there wasn’t even talk of high cost of living at the time as there is now.
Anyway, the arse fell out of it when it was made public that Queensland’s richest person and one of Australia’s richest people, Clive Palmer, worth somewhere between one and three billion dollars depending on which day it was, owned at least 9 cars in his name.
So approx$2,700 for him from the taxpayer and those who didn’t own or couldn’t afford a car got sweet FA.
As it turned out Labor’s Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk (PAP) romped home to win a third term with an increased majority.
Maybe Dope’s scheme will be popular with those who already have their $3 million in Super and need to find some where else to park their extra cash such as in a ‘Kids Super’ scheme.
God only knows we need more Super schemes.