The New South Wales economy is in drastic need of reform. Its manufacturing base is collapsing. A long run of drought and climate chaos has left much of the state’s rural industry in a parlous state. It cannot call on a wealth of mineral resources to fill the Treasury’s coffers, while revenue-sharing arrangements negotiated back when the GST was introduced still favour the less populous states. The transport system, utilities sector and a host of big-dollar infrastructure projects are in need of urgent funding and attention. But the government that must attend to them is a government of the living dead. The Labor Party is shambling towards the polls early next year and the wrath of the electorate will be terrible to behold.
John Birmingham, “Failed State”, The Monthly (December 2009)
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