Ausgrid decision: Overblown campaign rhetoric bites Baird
Baird and Berejiklian are still likely to get their Ausgrid lease completed, but not without losing some credibility in the process.
Sean Nicholls is the State Political Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
Baird and Berejiklian are still likely to get their Ausgrid lease completed, but not without losing some credibility in the process.
The former foreign minister says the federal Treasurer's Ausgrid decision is "the first major policy sacrifice to the witch's Sabbath stirred up in the recent federal election".
The result shows its policies are helping to improve housing affordability, the government says.
In an extraordinary move, Fairfield Labor mayor Frank Carbone will run on an independent ticket alongside Liberal councillor Dai Le.
But Deborah Langton might not get the opportunity as the ALP rank and file could be bypassed.
Cr Le is now considering whether to run as an independent candidate for mayor and councillor.
Malcolm Turnbull appears determined to maintain his silence on whether he contributed more than $2 million to the Liberal Party to help his re-election effort. But if it is true, it has exposed him as a hypocrite.
A call by the inspector of the ICAC to allow people found corrupt but not convicted in the courts to have their records expunged has been dismissed by a leading barrister.
The opposition is unlikely to get Jillian Skinner's resignation, but there is still danger ahead for the government
Wollongong MP Noreen Hay is set to announce her resignation from the NSW parliament by the end of the month.
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