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Kind of puts to bed the "gold standard" Premier argument that's inexplicably keeping her in office.
Pretty sure Scomo and the Coalition would consider those actions gold standard.
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Kind of puts to bed the "gold standard" Premier argument that's inexplicably keeping her in office.
Exactly. People talk about her like she’s been some kind of amazing premier. She’s just a *en doormat for developers.Kind of puts to bed the "gold standard" Premier argument that's inexplicably keeping her in office.
I agree she is way too close to the developer lobby, but her popularity isn’t that bewildering and isn’t totally unearned.Exactly. People talk about her like she’s been some kind of amazing premier. She’s just a fu**en doormat for developers.
Very possible. At state and local government levels in Australia, a lot of the most effective politicians are the ones who don’t have too many qualms about cutting corners.Maybe she gets things done because she's just as corrupt and crooked as the people she deals with.
Rampant pork barrelling in state government? Say it ain’t so!Grubby.
Finger-pointing continues as bureaucrat produces list of council grants approvals
A senior bureaucrat has produced evidence to an inquiry claiming Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Deputy Premier John Barilaro were responsible for deciding which councils and projects received a share of a $252 million grants program.www.smh.com.au
So, are you equally as dismissive of this then?Rampant pork barrelling in state government? Say it ain’t so!
Well on the error-riddled public transport infrastructure, I think there’s a perception she couldn’t have ****ed it up more if she’d tried.I agree she is way too close to the developer lobby, but her popularity isn’t that bewildering and isn’t totally unearned.
When she came into the job, she killed a bunch of very unpopular council mergers. Then she cancelled a bunch of proposed public-private partnerships for hospitals and promised to build them as fully public, and canned a proposed emergency services levy. All were big points of unhappiness with the Baird government.
She’s also reaping the benefit of approximately $120b of infrastructure spending that was started under her, Baird and O’Farrell, a lot of which is now coming online. Much of it is public transport renewal which has been desperately needed for decades, particularly the heavy rail stuff that Carr announced in 2005 and never did much about. It’s also been achieved with a fairly clean balance sheet.
Rightly or wrongly, she has a reputation for getting things done - something that has proved pretty difficult for Premiers in NSW over the last couple of decades.
It’s very similar to why Dan Andrews has proven so popular in Victoria.
If we want to be contemporary and compare apples with apples, look at the difference between Gladys Berejiklian and Dan Andrews. Imagine their roles reversed and she was the Premier of Victoria managing this pandemic while he was the Premier of NSW who'd been slipping one to a corrupt MP for half a dozen years. I don't think you'd find the press concentrating on his achievements, dubious or otherwise in office and lamenting his appalling taste in women to justify his retention while I doubt that Peta Credlin would turn out to her daily press conferences (lol) demanding that she be allowed to tell the Premier how to do her job.Just another reminder of the difference between the treatment of Gladys compared to Julia Gillard.
Not dismissive, it’s awful and unacceptable, but... well, I reckon they only found it because they looked.So, are you equally as dismissive of this then?
Berejiklian's office shredded documents after she signed off on millions in council grants, inquiry hears
An inquiry investigating alleged pork-barrelling is told that the NSW Premier's office shredded documents about millions of dollars in grants that were mostly allocated to councils in Coalition-held seats.www.abc.net.au
That is one perspective. On the other hand there are a lot of people who couldn’t care less about the light rail and stadiums, and are just happy that they’re finally getting the heavy rail and freeway extensions they were promised five premiers ago.Well on the error-riddled public transport infrastructure, I think there’s a perception she couldn’t have f’ed it up more if she’d tried.
Not to mention the stadium and Powerhouse fiasci.
Not sure where this perception of competence comes from, except her barrackers in the press.
I guess I'm just going on the persistent angle of the news stories over time. I don't follow state politics nearly to the extent that you clearly do, and there's no denying stuff-ups sell papers (or prompt clicks) better than boring "job done" stories. But from my perspective the perception of Bladders as a highly competent "can-do" premier sits uneasily with the number of stuff-up headlines she's generated.That is one perspective. On the other hand there are a lot of people who couldn’t care less about the light rail and stadiums, and are just happy that they’re finally getting the heavy rail and freeway extensions they were promised five premiers ago.
plus the Labor Party in NSW absolutely disgraced itself and had become unelectable. Berejiklian and the NSW Liberal Party have also lost a cricket team's worth of members due to corruption/shenanigans and are still more popular than the ALP. I reckon it says something about how putrid NSW politics is.I agree she is way too close to the developer lobby, but her popularity isn’t that bewildering and isn’t totally unearned.
When she came into the job, she killed a bunch of very unpopular council mergers. Then she cancelled a bunch of proposed public-private partnerships for hospitals and promised to build them as fully public, and canned a proposed emergency services levy. All were big points of unhappiness with the Baird government.
She’s also reaping the benefit of approximately $120b of infrastructure spending that was started under her, Baird and O’Farrell, a lot of which is now coming online. Much of it is public transport renewal which has been desperately needed for decades, particularly the heavy rail stuff that Carr announced in 2005 and never did much about. It’s also been achieved with a fairly clean balance sheet.
Rightly or wrongly, she has a reputation for getting things done - something that has proved pretty difficult for Premiers in NSW over the last couple of decades.
It’s very similar to why Dan Andrews has proven so popular in Victoria.
I also cannot for the life of me, understand how anyone can think that sharing a bed with a gangster and not being compromised is possible. They must also believe in the tooth fairy and Santa!I guess I'm just going on the persistent angle of the news stories over time. I don't follow state politics nearly to the extent that you clearly do, and there's no denying stuff-ups sell papers (or prompt clicks) better than boring "job done" stories. But from my perspective the perception of Bladders as a highly competent "can-do" premier sits uneasily with the number of stuff-up headlines she's generated.
Essendon Football clubs says it can happen sometimesI think she's in trouble now.
Deleted electronic records with no paper backups fails the pub test.
plus the Labor Party in NSW absolutely disgraced itself and had become unelectable. Berejiklian and the NSW Liberal Party have also lost a cricket team's worth of members due to corruption/shenanigans and are still more popular than the ALP. I reckon it says something about how putrid NSW politics is.
I even voted to boot them out in 2011.the ALP that got booted in 2011 was probably the most corrupt government since the 80s era of WA inc and the QLD Bjelke-Petersen stuff.
If Liberals couldn't hang onto government for the next decade then they didn't deserve to be a party.
Meanwhile, dear Gladys is using the Morrison ploy of trying to avoid responsibility.
Premier's office provided a list of grants to approve, despite saying she's not responsible
The Premier's office said that she was not the decision-maker in the Stronger Communities Grant Fund, even though she gave email approval for 11 grants, including $90 million for Hornsby Council.www.smh.com.au