Every departing politician wants to leave office with three things: dignity, their legacy intact and making a point of principle, and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is no exception. Ms Berejiklian is behaving like a Premier on the way out and not one who wants to hang around. This week she went to the NSW South Coast…
Premier Gladys Berejiklian and NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay slugged it out in Parliament House this week as if their political futures depended on it. Both NSW political leaders want to deliver a knock-out punch. All observers agree that they are on the ropes and that neither can last the course. The Coalition has lost…
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is publicly pretending that she is not leaving in March but privately she has already walked off the job. Meanwhile, her Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, has elbowed her out of the way and is behaving as if he has been sworn in as the State’s 46th Premier. In the polls, Empress Gladys…
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has had enough. She plans to leave the premiership in March hoping that her political legacy is in reasonable nick despite her personal reputation being in tatters. As Transport Minister, Treasurer and then Premier, Berejiklian was the hardest working Minister in the Coalition Government. There was not a skerrick of scandal attached to her…
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