Rees' 1st anniversary

What a ramshackle first anniversary for Nathan Rees:

* A state down the toilet in every sense of the word;
* A squabbling Labor party;
* A stalemate in the Legislative Council;
* A court system in disarray;
* A stupid spin doctor programme called 13 Super Departments;
* A crumbling public sector;
* Hospitals well and truly stuffed;
* No plans and no work done to improve the transport for the south west and north west of Sydney
* Rural/regional services stretched beyond breaking

And now the self-serving interests of the business community comes on line to haunt Rees.
Bring on the state election now!

Another Lame Duck Premier About To Depart

Yes, it is just a mere formality before Nathan Rees ceases to be Premier of NSW and a new marionette show orchestrated from the right-wing faction of the ALP begins. The choice of a woman - Kristina Keneally or Carmel Tebbutt - will be a change of puppet for sure. But the lads in Sussex Street miss the point: we are not fooled by the attempt to imitate Queensland with Anna Bligh.

As the Upper House relationship between the ALP and the Shooters Party remains at a stalemate the prospect of a hung Parliament needing to be dissolved for an election looms large.

The members of Cabinet should be asking themselves how did they end up in this mess. All they have to do is think back to the absurd lobbying of Laurie Glanfield and John Hatzistergos over the merger of the Protective Commissioner and Public Trustee in June. They secured the passage for that via wooing The Greens in exchange for stuffing up The Shooter's bill on bang-bangs in National Parks. If Glanfield and Hatzistergos had not been so adamant about pushing through on that issue then maybe Labor would still have The Shooters onside. Now they don't and it is impossible to govern the state without at least 3 secure votes from minor parties.

Premier Rees Takes A Vacation! Ha!

Premier Rees has vanished for the week before Parliament resumes. That gives the gals and boys time now to sharpen their daggers when Caesar returns for the frenzied Ides of March doom that awaits him. More puppetry of the Premier show!

Memo to Rees: Don't Try To Deflect Attention

Which spin-doctor dreamed up this silly piece of nonsense for Nathan Rees to sprout about "maybe it is time for a new national flag"? This is a sign of sheer desperation to try and divert attention from the abominable administrative mess blighting the NSW State Government and NSW Public Sector.

UPDATE:
Barry O'Farrell quite rightly sticks it to the Premier on the drivel about the flag.

Changing the Puppet in Macquarie Street

Only a couple of weeks to go until the deadlocked NSW Parliament resumes "business". And the demise of Nathan Rees as Premier-Puppet seems assured. There will be a Punch-and-Judy-Show and then another puppet will appear.

The ALP in NSW is wasting its time because the whole Labor Government is no longer a patient in intensive care. No the Labor Government is just another body in the fridge waiting for the overworked coroner to do the post-mortem!

We look forward with a yawn to the next "Sooty Show" from Labor.

Nathan Rees Admits Failings!!

Good on ya Nathan Rees -- it's nice to know that you work your guts out 17 hrs per day and you run a lousy government! Beautiful confession in the Daily Telegraph. And now Nathan you know how we all feel about you from the Newspoll showing the Coalition is preferred to Labor and Barry O'Farrell is preferred to you. Bye bye Labor - the rout wil be colossal in March 2011!

NSW RailCorp - Beautiful Under Staffing!

No grand revelation really because we all know that the railways are stuffed up but today's Sydney Morning Herald points out the serious failure to replace 22 staff positions at Town Hall. Another wonderful example of the hollowness of Nathan Rees' mantra about his government being on about "jobs, jobs, jobs".

Joe Tripodi -- the last part of the umbilical cord??

Perhaps the last splice on the umbilical cord needed to cut Nathan Rees loose is found in which way the wind blows for Joe Tripodi. It is a pity that Ian Macdonald is not removed simultaneously!

And need we be surprised that the NSW Police attrition rates are rising? All part and parcel of the defunct and dysfunctional policies and practices implemented by the moguls at the top of the public sector --- Police officers completing performance indicator sheets, and other such tripe! The NSW public sector is awash with superfluous paperwork dreamed up by consultants who are handsomely paid for artificial and needless advice.

A Funny Thing Happened to NSW State Plan!

Yes folks a funny thing has happened to the NSW State Plan - most bets are off it seems as the targets set by the plan are unattainable! Ha! Gee you do not have to qualify as a member of Mensa to figure out that the State Plan was sheer PR.

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.

NSW Premier Circles the Wagons

Hahahaha! NSW Premier Rees is circling the wagons, so it seems, to fend off any challenges by dissenting MPs to his mantle. Read about the latest episode in the NSW Labor soap-opera "the bland and the boring". Recall Bob Hawke's statement? "If you can't govern your party you can't govern the country." Paraphrased: "if you can't govern your Labor mates, you certainly cannot govern the state of NSW!"