Premier Morris Iemma waited, until New South Wales was preoccupied with the federal election and State Parliament had risen for the final time in 2007, to begin putting the building blocks in place to privatise this state's electricity suppliers.
He gave an unworkable guarantee that the sell-off of public assets would not affect ordinary consumers and then ignored regional NSW by promising that sale money would be first spent on giving Sydney a brand new metro rail system.
This tactic was worthy of John Howard at his best. It seems the example of his highhanded approach continues to contaminate politics at all levels.
During the last ten years NSW Labor has moved so far to the right that it makes middle of the road voters like myself seem positively Red.
Morris Iemma should take a good look at all those voters who swung against the Coalition at the recent federal election. They are the same voters who will sweep NSW Labor from government if he keeps this up.
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