NSW Cabinet Deck Chair Reshuffle Touted

The cliff-hanger to the next episode of "The Bland and The Boring" is all about Premier Rees' threats to demote a few cabinet ministers for disloyalty. Yes Mr Kelly and Mr Macdonald ought to be pensioned off but then so should most of the cabinet and indeed most of the Labor MPs sitting in NSW Parliament. So gee wow what a difference a new cabinet will make to a bankrupt government, an over-worked and under-resourced public sector, and infrastructure that cannot match community needs (let alone future development)!

The Premier does not seem to understand that public sympathy for him has been washing away in the past few months as he stumbles from crisis to crisis and arbitrarily back-flips on hasty decisions. In fact the public could care less about the internal party bickering and ego-centric ambitions of those desiring the purple mantle.

As Lisa Carty indicates the Super Department plan for public sector reform is a big botched mess. Blind Freddy could have told the Premier that all these decisions about reform and cabinet reshuffle are attempts at cosmetic cover-ups for the immense mess the state is in.