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		<title>Newspoll &#8211; Labor primary hits record low, Greens reach record high</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Newspoll published in The Australian is devastating for the NSW Labor Party. Their primary vote has crashed a record low of 26 per cent while the Coalition is up 2 points to 44 per cent. The Greens are up 5 to a record high of 17 per cent. On a two party preferred [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macquariestreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7971284&amp;post=286&amp;subd=macquariestreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spill is on</title>
		<link>http://macquariestreet.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/spill-is-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got off a plane, waiting for my connecting flight, and decided to check the news. What do you know, apparently a special caucus meeting has been called where it&#8217;s expected Nathan Rees will be challenged for the leadership by either Frank Sartor or Kristina Keneally. It&#8217;s hard for me to keep updated on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macquariestreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7971284&amp;post=275&amp;subd=macquariestreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going away</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very unusual of me, but this time I&#8217;m letting everyone know ahead of schedule that I&#8217;ll be overseas until January and as a result won&#8217;t be posting very much. I will try and keep this blog updated if I can with whatever information I come across, but I&#8217;ll create an open thread where everyone can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macquariestreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7971284&amp;post=273&amp;subd=macquariestreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No dead Tripodi bounce</title>
		<link>http://macquariestreet.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/no-dead-tripodi-bounce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Nielsen poll out this week has the Coalition leading Labor 55-45 on a two party preferred basis with primaries running at 43 per cent, 31 per cent for Labor and 13 per cent for The Greens. The Labor primary has not moved since the State ALP conference were Labor figures, including the Premier, were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macquariestreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7971284&amp;post=270&amp;subd=macquariestreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greens select 2011 Upper House team</title>
		<link>http://macquariestreet.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/greens-select-2011-upper-house-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW Greens have just completed their preselection for the upper house in the next State election. The preselection was conducted by a ballot of all members and counted this weekend. Prominent environmentalist and executive director of the Nature Conservation Council Cate Faehrmann was elected to fill the vacancy in the Legislative Council created by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macquariestreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7971284&amp;post=267&amp;subd=macquariestreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rees dictatorship?</title>
		<link>http://macquariestreet.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/the-rees-dictatorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big news out of last weekend&#8217;s State ALP conference is that Premier Nathan Rees has been given the power to appoint his own cabinet, no longer having factions force candidates upon him. The move came as a surprise to conference delegates, with only a small clique of ALP members, including Rees, his chief of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macquariestreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7971284&amp;post=265&amp;subd=macquariestreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legislation situation &#8211; Changes to electoral roll</title>
		<link>http://macquariestreet.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/legislation-situation-changes-to-electoral-roll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electoral Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a bunch of new legislation up for debate in NSW Parliament over the next few weeks and some pretty major new policy initiatives from the Government. Rather than trying to give an update on everything that&#8217;s happening I&#8217;ll pick a few of the ones I think are the most important or interesting and give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macquariestreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7971284&amp;post=262&amp;subd=macquariestreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Moyes joins Family First</title>
		<link>http://macquariestreet.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/gordon-moyes-joins-family-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent NSW MLC Gordon Moyes has just announced he is joining Family First, becoming their first MP in NSW. Moyes was elected to the Legislative Council in 2002 as a member of the Christian Democratic Party. He served in that capacity until 2009 when he was expelled from the party after a number of personal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macquariestreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7971284&amp;post=253&amp;subd=macquariestreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cabinet reshuffle</title>
		<link>http://macquariestreet.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/cabinet-reshuffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon Premier Nathan Rees unveiled what I would call a pretty significant cabinet reshuffle. As expected, Tony Kelly has been dumped as Police Minister and Carmel Tebbutt has shifted from Environment to Health. Ian Macdonald has lost Energy. Corrective Services Minister John Robertson has picked up Environment and Energy. Michael Daley has been promoted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macquariestreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7971284&amp;post=250&amp;subd=macquariestreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Della&#8217;s post mortem</title>
		<link>http://macquariestreet.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/dellas-post-mortem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Della Bosca]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The resignation of John Della Bosca has changed the political dynamic in NSW on a number of levels. Premier Nathan Rees has been forced to plan a cabinet reshuffle, promoting allies and demoting those who he perceives as being destabalising figures in caucus. Rees&#8217; hold on the leadership of the Labor Party has also been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=macquariestreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7971284&amp;post=245&amp;subd=macquariestreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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