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Michael Daley to make another tilt at NSW Labor leadership

Member for Coogee Marjorie O'Neill said she supported Mr Daley, but also a rank-and-file vote for the leadership.

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 NSW Labor Party elder Michael Knight – best known for his role as the minister for the Sydney Olympics – gave a sobering speech in March about the fortunes of opposition leaders. Knight began: “Leading a main opposition political party in any parliament in Australia is a temporary job, not a career. It either ends in becoming leader of a government, or it ends in tears.”

Speaking at the conservative-aligned think tank The Sydney Institute, Knight – who served for two decades in NSW Parliament – could not have known what was facing his party just two months later. However, Knight’s speech, titled Rock Stars or Dogged Competitors? How to pick an Opposition Leader, could not have been more prescient

Labor has lost the art of opposition: be smart, be tough and have a plan

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