NSW Labor

Iemma Gone, Costa gone

alex white — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:45:27 -0700

Michael Costa has been sacked by Iemma, after pressure from caucus. Article from News.com.au and SMH. UPDATE: Iemma has resigned! Interesting times in the NSW Labor Party. Any NSW comrades care to comment?

the boy who could fly

arleeshar — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:29:08 -0700

I will draw your attention to this opinion piece in today’s SMH, by Nick Wood, NSW young labor’s left whipping boy, burgeoning Gouldian, frequenter of my favourite coffee shop (thanks for Googling Nick, yes we are faceless and we are watching you). I particularly enjoyed his recounting of the health minister’s homily on the perils of binge eating:

A "training school" run by NSW Young Labor last year, one of the Right's annual recruitment events, featured the Health Minister, Reba Meagher. Neglecting to focus on policy issues, she... informed those attending of the need to pursue power above all else. She later regaled the new members with tales of the perpetually disgraced NSW minister Joe Tripodi vomiting from a car window after eating too many "twinkies".

The image of a (presumably) young Joe Tripodi blearily wiping wind-blown chunks of vomit off his face with the back of his hand, straining out the back window of a cream-and-rust 1981 Honda Civic packed to groaning with guffawing pimply proto-hacks of the NSW right on the way home from a party function, is now with me forever. Bless.

Oust Iemma

alex white — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:23:45 -0700

The Australian reports that the NSW Labor Party hard heads are preparing to oust Iemma.

Mr Iemma is standing firm in the belief his party has no alternative to him. But senior ALP figures were adamant: "We will find one."

In my view, Iemma is seriously compromised and will not be able to win the next election. Can comrades in NSW comment on how it looks north of the border?

In which I enjoy the Daily Telegraph's rampant moralising.

arleeshar — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:04:56 -0700

It is time for the ALP to tell the pair this will be their last term, and to find polite, civilised, well-adjusted people to fill Mr Della Bosca's Legislative Council vacancy and Ms Neal's Central Coast seat at the next state and federal polls.

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