“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Lest We Forget!
"It looks like our Premier has missed an opportunity to sell off another NSW asset," observes Chris Patten of Roseville. "What’s going to happen to the coal under Sydney harbour that the Sydney Metro tunnelling machine could extract while boring its way across the harbour?" Not really sure that you should be giving them any ideas Chris, or we'll have tunnelling machines ripping up coal seams beneath the whole metropolitan area.
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Can NSW Labor leader Michael Daley beat the 'dirt unit'?
Can NSW Labor leader Michael Daley beat the 'dirt unit'?
Can NSW Labor leader Michael Daley beat the ‘dirt unit’?
Will the cash splashes, attack ads, and hit pieces trawling through Michael Daley's past disrupt Labor's pre-election momentum?
In a little over three weeks, NSW will head to the polls in a vote so tight and unpredictable it’s broken Antony Green’s election calculator. Since he was thrust into the Labor leadership after Luke Foley’s unceremonious departure three months ago, Michael Daley has quietly moved to being neck and neck with Premier Gladys Berejiklian in the polls. While Daley may just be enjoying a post-Foley honeymoon, the tight polling has the Coalition scared. Can the cash splashes, attack ads, and hit pieces trawling through the leader’s past disrupt Daley’s momentum?
What Daley wants
Daley, who is keen to paint himself as a kind of inoffensive suburban dad, isn’t one for grandiosity. In an interview with The Guardian last year, the member for Maroubra promised that one of his first priorities was to “calm Sydney down”. The issue of stadiums has become an easy signature battleground for Daley. Berejiklian’s promise to spend billions upgrading the Sydney Football Stadium in Moore Park and the ANZ Stadium has consistently proven unpopular with the electorate. Daley jumped on the issue within days of taking the leadership, telling the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust, which controls the SFS they wouldn’t “get a single cent” of public money, and staring down a challenge from the National Rugby League, who threatened to move the Grand Final interstate if the update didn’t go ahead.
The ghosts of Labor continue to haunt Daley
On March 23, 2009, one of Eddie Obeid's tasks for the day was discussing "phone use" and a country road with his colleague Michael Daley, entries in Obeid's diary reveal.
The Australian Financial Review
NSW is a state still in the throes of catch-up after Bob Carr's disastrous edict in 2000 that Sydney was full. A decade was then lost as Labor, in between scandals, stumbled around dealing with population that came any way. At the last election, Mr Daley's predecessor did his best on behalf of the unions to sabotage the electricity privatisations that have allowed roads, railways and a second airport to finally take shape in an $80 billion, four-year pipeline – with no debt.
NSW is a state still in the throes of catch-up after Bob Carr's disastrous edict in 2000 that Sydney was full. A decade was then lost as Labor, in between scandals, stumbled around dealing with population that came any way. At the last election, Mr Daley's predecessor did his best on behalf of the unions to sabotage the electricity privatisations that have allowed roads, railways and a second airport to finally take shape in an $80 billion, four-year pipeline – with no debt.
Ms Berejiklian has her problems. She is an incremental, un-telegenic technocrat, implementing the cut-through gains of Mike Baird. A disastrous new plan to pull down and rebuild two sport stadiums, one the Olympic stadium less than 20 years old, looked like a government too flush with cash to spend wisely – and now unable to argue for prudence in other areas. Despite eight years in office, there is only disruptive construction rather than gleaming new trains or motorways yet to show. Her weakest electoral flanks are in the regions, exposed to independents and One Nation led by Mark Latham. But Ms Berejiklian is at least seeking the high road of growth back to office, just as Daniel Andrews to his credit did in Victoria. NSW Labor on the other hand sticks with the low road that it knows too well.
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